Self-consciousness and personal identity in quantum panprotopsychism

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11530v1
• Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 12:55:33 GMT
• Title: Self-consciousness and personal identity in quantum panprotopsychism
• Authors: Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin,
• Abstract summary: We analyze self-consciousness as the capacity to view oneself as a subject of experience.<n>In entangled systems, the properties of individual parts disappear, giving rise to an exponential number of emergent properties and states.<n>In this context, the issue of personal identity takes a new form free from the problems of the simple view or the reductive approaches.
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• Abstract: In previous papers, we demonstrated that an ontology of quantum mechanics, described in terms of states and events with internal phenomenal aspects (a form of panprotopsychism), is well suited to explain consciousness. We showed that the combination problems of qualities, structures and subjects in panpsychism and panprotopsychism stem from implicit hypotheses based on classical physics regarding supervenience, which are not applicable at the quantum level. Within this view, consciousness arises in entangled quantum systems coupled to the neural network of the brain. In entangled systems, the properties of individual parts disappear, giving rise to an exponential number of emergent properties and states. Here, we analyze self-consciousness as the capacity to view oneself as a subject of experience. The causal openness of quantum systems provides self-conscious beings the ability to make independent choices and decisions, reflecting a sense of self-governance and autonomy. In this context, the issue of personal identity takes a new form free from the problems of the simple view or the reductive approaches.

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