[MD] Quantum Enigma

[MarshaV]

Hi Dave,

The articles look to be excellent papers on consciousness.  I don't 
know if you've read the book , 'Quantum Enigma', but what it presents 
is where the Quantum enigma (the measurement problem) bumps up 
against the mysteries of consciousness.  It makes for an interesting, knotty  
'entanglement.'  

For a few minutes  around 1990 I considered entering into a postgraduate 
program in Cognitive Science at Yale.  My husband said: NO!  That was the 
end of that, but the subject is still interesting, and better from a Value 
point-of-view.   


Marsha 





On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:46 AM, David Thomas wrote:

> On 9/28/10 3:45 AM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> Everybody in the world may know this but moi, but I find it terribly exciting:
>> 
>> 
>>   "To argue that conscious experience goes beyond ordinary knowing, we are
>> told the story of Mary, a scientist of the future who knows all there is to
>> know abut the perception of color.  But she has never been outside a room
>> where everything is black or white.  One day she is shown something red.  For
>> the first time, Mary _experiences_ red.  Her experience of red is something
>> _beyond_ her complete knowledge of red.  Or is it?  You can no doubt generate
>> for yourself the pro and con arguments that the Mary story provokes."
> 
> Here's a con from a link page by Chalmers who is on the pro side.
> 
> http://http-server.carleton.ca/~abrook/papers/2005-ConscNsc-1CogBrain.pdf
>> 
>>>>>>> (Rosenblum & Kuttner,'Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness',
>>>>>>> p.180,2006) 
> 
>> Somehow this represents the difference between 'probabilities' and
>> 'possibilities,' but don't ask me to explain.
>> 
> 
> And this is Chalmers link page with a wealth of papers on consciousness.
> 
> http://consc.net/mindpapers/1.2g
> 
> Dave
> 
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