Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 177 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789811241147
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9789811241154
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9811241147
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Awakening of the Dogmatic Dream: The Quest for Certainties in Science and Philosophy -- 1.1. Science -- 1.2. Philosophy -- 1.3. Conclusions -- Chapter 2. The Nature of the Laws of Physics: Regularist Physicalism -- 2.1. Regularist physicalism -- 2.2. Brief history of physical theories -- 2.3. Laws of nature -- Chapter 3. Basic Principles of Quantum Mechanics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Kinematics: States, physical magnitudes, and systems -- 3.3. Kinematics: Physical magnitudes, eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Content:
3.4. Dynamics: Probabilities and evolution -- 3.5. Dynamics: Measurement and preparation of states -- 3.6. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 4. A First Approach to the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics -- 4.1. Events and measurements -- 4.2. Systems and states -- Chapter 5. Causal Closure and Strong Emergence in Quantum Mechanics -- 5.1. Physicalism and causal closure in quantum mechanics -- 5.2. Strong emergence -- 5.2.1. Non-separability of the quantum states -- 5.2.2. Non-supervenience of the quantum properties -- 5.2.3. Top-down causation -- 5.3. No cloning and inaccessibility of quantum states
Content:
Chapter 6. The Measurement Problem: Decoherence and Some Interpretations that Admit an Ontology of Quantum Objects and Events -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Decoherence -- 6.3. The Many Worlds Interpretation -- 6.4. The Montevideo Interpretation of quantum mechanics -- Chapter 7. Processes and Individuals -- Chapter 8. Quantum Ontology and the First-Person Perspective -- 8.1. First-person perspective and direct inner acquaintance -- 8.2. Quantum ontology and direct inner acquaintance -- 8.3. States and direct inner acquaintance -- Chapter 9. Physical Requirements for Models of Consciousness
Content:
9.1. The hard problem of consciousness -- 9.2. Relevance of quantum mechanics in conscious phenomena -- 9.3. Requirements for quantum models of consciousness -- 9.4. Scenarios for quantum models of consciousness -- 9.4.1. Is a quantum-based consciousness compatible with decoherence? -- 9.4.2. Fisher's model of quantum cognition -- 9.5. Conclusions -- Chapter 10. The Role of Consciousness in Living Beings -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Unlimited associative learning -- Chapter 11. Free Will and the Quantum Consciousness -- 11.1. Determinism -- 11.2. Indeterminism
Content:
11.3. Addressing some objections to free will -- Chapter 12. Self-consciousness and Persons -- 12.1. Self-consciousness and self-determination -- 12.2. Episodic vs. permanent self -- 12.3. Self-consciousness and persons -- 12.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 13. The Higher Activities of the Self: Cognition -- 13.1. Origins -- 13.2. Conceptual representations -- 13.3. Rudimentary and robust first-person perspectives -- 13.4. The distinction between the 'I' and the 'me' self -- 13.5. The self as a process: The centrality of freedom -- Chapter 14. The Transcendence of the Self -- Chapter 15. Persons and the Search for Transcendence.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811241130
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gambini, Rodolfo Atoms And Persons: The Search For A Consistent View Of The Physical And Humanistic Perspectives Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company,c2022 ISBN 9789811241130
Language:
English
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