Causal potency of consciousness in the physical world
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14707v1
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:55:33 GMT
- Title: Causal potency of consciousness in the physical world
- Authors: Danko D. Georgiev
- Abstract summary: An attempt to construct a functional theory of the conscious mind within the framework of classical physics leads to causally impotent conscious experiences.
We show that a mind--brain theory consistent with causally potent conscious experiences is provided by modern quantum physics.
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- Abstract: The evolution of the human mind through natural selection mandates that our
conscious experiences are causally potent in order to leave a tangible impact
upon the surrounding physical world. Any attempt to construct a functional
theory of the conscious mind within the framework of classical physics,
however, inevitably leads to causally impotent conscious experiences in direct
contradiction to evolution theory. Here, we derive several rigorous theorems
that identify the origin of the latter impasse in the mathematical properties
of ordinary differential equations employed in combination with the alleged
functional production of the mind by the brain. Then, we demonstrate that a
mind--brain theory consistent with causally potent conscious experiences is
provided by modern quantum physics, in which the unobservable conscious mind is
reductively identified with the quantum state of the brain and the observable
brain is constructed by the physical measurement of quantum brain observables.
The resulting quantum stochastic dynamics obtained from sequential quantum
measurements of the brain is governed by stochastic differential equations,
which permit genuine free will exercised through sequential conscious choices
of future courses of action. Thus, quantum reductionism provides a solid
theoretical foundation for the causal potency of consciousness, free will and
cultural transmission.
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