Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics

Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction Part I. Consciousness and Wave Function Collapse Chapter 1: Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function, David Chalmers and Kelvin McQueen Chapter 2: The Subjective-Objective Collapse Model: Virtues and Challenges, Elias Okon and Miguel Ángel Sebastián Chapter 3: Quantum Mentality: Panpsychism and Panintentionalism, J. Acacio de Barros and Carlos Montemayor Chapter 4: Perception Constraints on Mass-Dependent Spontaneous Localization, Adrian Kent Part II. Consciousness in Quantum Theories Chapter 5: Quantum Mechanics and the Consciousness Constraint, Philip Goff Chapter 6: Against "Experience", Peter J. Lewis Chapter 7: Why physics should care about the mind, and how to think about it without worrying about the mind-body problem, Jenann Ismael Chapter 8: Why Mind Matters in Quantum Mechanics, Shan Gao Chapter 9: The Nature of Belief in No-Collapse Everett Interpretations, Paul Skokowski Chapter 10: The Completeness of Quantum Mechanics and the Determinateness and Consistency of Intersubjective Experience: Wigner's Friend and Delayed Choice, Michael Silberstein and W. M. Stuckey Chapter 11: The Roles Ascribed to Consciousness in Quantum Physics: A Revelator of Dualist (or Quasi-Dualist) Prejudice, Michel Bitbol Chapter 12: Proposal to Use Humans to Switch Settings in a Bell Experiment, Lucien Hardy Part III. Quantum Approaches to Consciousness Chapter 13: New Physics for the Orch-OR Consciousness Proposal, Roger Penrose Chapter 14: Orch OR and the Quantum Biology of Consciousness, Stuart Hameroff Chapter 15: Can Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness? Basil J. Hiley and Paavo Pylkkänen Chapter 16: Strange Trails: Science to Metaphysics, William Seager Chapter 17: On the Place of Qualia in a Relational Universe, Lee Smolin Bibliography Index