Quantum Models of Consciousness - an Introduction

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Quantum Models of Consciousness - an Introduction

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Baars, Trends in Cognitive Science, 61, jan. 2002

Simultaneity of brain signals

A crash course in Quantum Physics

The Measurement Problem

Non local correlations

So what constitutes a measurement? 1. Subjective Reduction

So what constitutes a measurement? 2. Objective Reduction

Stapp: Consciousness causes the collapse?

Hall et al, Foundations of Physics 7 (1977), pp. 759-67

Experimental Set Up

The pre-observer experiment

Results of Hall et al

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Hoped for ERP results

Penroseâ??s ORCH OR model

Visual Consciousness

Quantum decoherence times in Brain

Empirically: photon echo exp.

Hoped for Results

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Transcendental aspects of Consciousness?

What is presentiment?

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Was Ian just lucky?

1996:Presentiment experiment

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Results First Subject (Radin-1)

Results all Subjects (Radin-1)

This should be everywhere!

Mainstream Research questions

What did we do?

What did we find?

Procedure Animal fear study

Results re-analysis Hammâ??s data

Damasio: gambling procedure

Damasio dataset analyses

Winning vs. Losing Cards:

Results re-analysis Gambling experiment

So What Next?

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What has this to do with QP

However

Conclusion 2

Author: Dick Bierman

Homepage: http://www.neuromod.org/courses/cn2002/

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