- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Figures
- Introduction
-
I Preliminaries -
1 General Approach and Assumptions -
2 Mental Events -
3 The Consensus -
II Against Mechanism -
4 More and Different Information -
5 Plausible Reasoning -
6 Consciousness Selected by Evolution -
7 Folk Psychology -
8 Transcending the Code -
III Quantum Mechanics -
9 Historical Outline -
10 Some Mechanics and Mathematics -
11 The Quantum Mechanical State -
12 The Development of the Quantum State -
13 Combined Systems -
14 The Measurement Problem -
15 Quantum Theory and Reality -
IV Mind and the World -
16 Outline of a Theory of Mind -
17 The Self -
18 Time -
19 Sketches for a World-View - References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- The Mind Matters
- Author(s):
David Hodgson
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Part I of this book summarizes some views basic to the general approach. It elaborates on mental events, the distinctions between them and physical events; and trace possible views on the relationship between the two. It also outlines the current consensus on the question in science and philosophy. Part II presents the main arguments against the mechanistic view of the brain-mind, which is at the heart of the current consensus. Part III considers quantum physics, its basic mathematics, its interpretation, and some of its implications for the mind-matter question. Part IV gives suggestions for the resolution of the mind-matter question.
Keywords: science, conscious events, physical events, brain-mind, mind-matter
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Figures
- Introduction
-
I Preliminaries -
1 General Approach and Assumptions -
2 Mental Events -
3 The Consensus -
II Against Mechanism -
4 More and Different Information -
5 Plausible Reasoning -
6 Consciousness Selected by Evolution -
7 Folk Psychology -
8 Transcending the Code -
III Quantum Mechanics -
9 Historical Outline -
10 Some Mechanics and Mathematics -
11 The Quantum Mechanical State -
12 The Development of the Quantum State -
13 Combined Systems -
14 The Measurement Problem -
15 Quantum Theory and Reality -
IV Mind and the World -
16 Outline of a Theory of Mind -
17 The Self -
18 Time -
19 Sketches for a World-View - References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
