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Science of consciousness :: Consciousness and physics :: Consciousness and physics, misc

• Carlos Acosta (2006). The frame(s) problem and the physical and emotional basis of human cognition.   (More)
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journalissues.php?issn=1477965X&v=4&i=2
  http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/doi/ref/10.1386/tear.4.2.151_1
  
• D. Aerts, J. Broekaert & Liane Gabora (2002). Intrinsic contextuality as the crux of consciousness.   (More)
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://cogprints.org/974/
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/aerts00intrinsic.html
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/665954.html
  http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/aerts/publications/2000CruxConsc.pdf
  http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000974/00/tokyo99.htm
  http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:cogprints.soton.ac.uk:974
  
• Bernard Baars (1995). Can physics provide a theory of consciousness?   (More)
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-08-baars.html
  http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/volume2-1/psyche-95-2-08-shadows-6-baars.html
  http://www.calculemus.org/MathUniversalis/NS/10/02baars.html
  
• Erhard Bieberich (ms). Structure in human consciousness: A fractal approach to the topology of the self perceiving an outer world in an inner space.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: In human consciousness a world of separated objects is perceived by an inner observer who is experienced as an undivided feeling of one-self. A topological correlation of the self to the world, however, entails a paradoxical situation by either merging all separated objects into one or splitting the self into as many subselves as there are objects perceived. This study introduces a model suggesting that the self is generated in a neural network by algorithmic compression of spatial and temporal information into a fractal structure. A correlation of an inner observer to parts of a fractal structure inevitably entails a correlation to the whole, thereby preserving the undividedness of the self. Molecular mechanisms for the generation of a fractal structure in a neural network and the possibility of experimental investigation will be discussed
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/00/79/index.html
  http://cogprints.org/79/00/struc2.htm
  http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:cogprints.soton.ac.uk:79
  http://cogprints.org/79/
  http://cogprints.org/79/0/struc2.htm
  
• David Bohm (1986). A new theory of the relationship of mind and matter.   (More)
• M. Dugic, Milan Cirkovic & D. Rakovic (2002). On a possible physical metatheory of consciousness.   (More)
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  http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0212128
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/opsy/2002/00000009/00000002/05091541
  
• Michael Esfeld (1999). Quantum holism and the philosophy of mind.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: This paper attempts to build a bridge between the interpretation of quantum theory and the philosophy of mind. In contrast to other such attempts, the bridge which this paper suggests does not consist in extending features of quantum theory to the philosophy of mind. The argument of this paper is that the discussion about a revision of the Cartesian tradition in current philosophy of mind is relevant to the interpretation of quantum theory: taking this discussion into account sharpens up the task for the interpretation of quantum physics as far as the scope of what is known as quantum holism is concerned. In particular, considering this discussion makes out a strong case against the interpretation that considers quantum holism to be universal in the physical realm
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Philosophie/Mitarbeiter/Esfeld/cons.pdf
  http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Philosophie/Mitarbeiter_ALT/Esfeld/cons.pdf
  
• Amit Goswami (ms). The hard questions: View from a science of consciousness.   (More)
• M. W. Ho (1997). Quantum coherence and conscious experience.   (More)
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  http://www.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=20060953061384MT&recid=20060965088557CI&recid=20060944151968EA
  http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/0670260302.pdf
  http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/MaeWanHo/brainde.pdf
  http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03684929710163164
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/067/1997/00000026/00000003/art00002
  
• Copthorne Macdonald (1994). An energy/ awareness/ information interpretation of physical and mental reality.   (More)
• J. McFadden (2002). The conscious electromagnetic information (cemi) field theory: The hard problem made easy?   (More)
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://www.surrey.ac.uk/qe/pdfs/mcfadden_JCS2002b.pdf
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2002/00000009/00000008/1298
  
• Ulrich Mohrhoff (online). Beyond the cookie Cutter paradigm.   (More)
• Ulrich Mohrhoff (2007). Particles, consciousness, volition: A vedantic vision.   (More)
• Ulrich Mohrhoff (online). Quantum mechanics and the cookie Cutter paradigm.   (More)
  Additional links for this entry:
  http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0009001
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000quant.ph..9001M
  http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0009001
  
• Hans Moravec (1995). Roger Penrose's gravitonic brains: A review of Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose.   (Abstract & more)
  Abstract: Summarizing a surrounding 200 pages, pages 179 to 190 of Shadows of the Mind contain a future dialog between a human identified as "Albert Imperator" and an advanced robot, the "Mathematically Justified Cybersystem", allegedly Albert's creation. The two have been discussing a Gödel sentence for an algorithm by which a robot society named SMIRC certifies mathematical proofs. The sentence, referred to in mathematical notation as Omega(Q*), is to be precisely constructed from on a definition of SMIRC's algorithm. It can be interpreted as stating "SMIRC's algorithm cannot certify this statement." The robot has asserted that SMIRC never makes mistakes. If so, SMIRC's algorithm cannot certify the Goedel sentence, for that would make the statement false. But, if they can't certify it, what is says is true! Humans can understand it is true, but mighty SMIRC cannot certify it. The dialog ends melodramatically as the robot, apparently unhinged by this revelation, claims to be a messenger of god, and the human shuts it down with a secret control

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