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"Our concern is with the"consciousness" central to the quantum enigma---the awareness that appears to affect physical reality. We do not necessarily imply that consciousness is a "physical thing" that "reaches out" and does something physical. We are describing an enigma, not proposing a solution." Okay, okay, I'll stop... On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:49 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > > "We have talked about consciousness but have never fully defined it. > Dictionary definitions of "consciousness" are little better than those for > "physics." We've been using "consciousness" as roughly equivalent to > "awareness." or perhaps the _feeling_ of awareness. It certainly includes > the perception of free will. Our use of the term "consciousness" is that > standard in the treatment of the quantum measurement problem. (In any event, > as Humpty Dumpty told Alice: "When I use a word . . . it means just what I > choose it to mean," and the philosopher Wittgenstein would more or less > agree.) > > "It is often pointed out that we can know of the existence of consciousness > in _no_ other way than through our first-person feeling of awareness or the > second-person reports of others. (In the following chapter we suggest a > quantum challenge to this limitation.) > > "We will not refer to many of the things found in discussions of > consciousness from a psychological point of view. For example, we will not > talk of optical illusions, mental disturbances, self-consciousness, or > Freud's seat of hidden emotions, the _unconscious." > > > >>>>>> (Rosenblum & Kuttner,'Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness', >>>>>> p.172,2006) > > > > ___ ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
