Consciousness in Quantum View: An Inspection of Stapp and Penrose Viewpoints

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Salehi, Maryam | 2016

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 48025 (03)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Chemistry
Advisor(s): Shafiee, Afshin
Abstract:
In order to study the phenomenon of consciousness, many physicists have presented their views. In this thesis, the phenomenon of consciousness is analyzed from Henrry Stapp and Penrose-Hameroffs’ viewpoints. Assuming the subjective reduction of state vector, Stapp considers conscious mind as prerequisite for the reduction of wave function. In his view, consciousness is a selection agent which has a top-level control over brain stimulations,and every conscious experience is the feeling of the top-level event in the brain. He also considers physical world as a structure of tendencies and probabilities. He speaks about creative events which occur among Heisenberg probability distributions. On the other hand, in Penrose-Hameroff viewpoint, the objective reduction of state vector is suggested. Elementary acts of consciousness are non-algorithmic, non-computable, and they are considered as gravitation-induced reductions of coherent superposition states in microtubuli.Both views are endowed with deficencies as well as strong points which need more elaboration
Keywords:
Quantum Mechanics ; Physical Reality ; Consciousness Phenomenon

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