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The United Nations, New York – September 11, 2008
Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness
An excerpt of Henry Stapp, PhD talking about how quantum mechanics can explain how intent can cause changes in the structure of the brain that can ultimately affect behavior.
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Amazing. So through quantum physics we learn where the material world meets the metaphysical. Atheistic physicists hate this idea because it forces them to admit that something exists beyond the physical. And of course this admission leads directly into the recognition of a Supreme Being and an afterlife. Fantastic.
it's beyond explanation for "modern" materialistic, newtonian – einsteinian physic.. english language is too poor, based on materialistic thinking and has no words for explanation of such phenomena as quantum mechanic that is very core for conciseness itself
Interesting ideas, but seems to me he slides from collapse of the wave function to attention and action choice in the brain, when the two do not need to be related. The wave function collapses, as I understand it, in physical situations without the human present; and there are brain architectures that can select what to attend to and what action to take that do not need to occur at the quantum level, they can arise from higher level brain architecture.
Wow great ?????
The words "human" and "consciousness" should be thrown out of the dictionary. Both do not exist, though we give some ideas those names.
Buddhist walking meditation focuses on intention. The Tibetan Buddhists are first and correct, leaving our current science in the dust, waiting for discoveries already known.
Thanks, Henry, I like your philosophy, will definitely be looking at your work.
The thing outside your brain hardware is YOU. It really is that simple. The soul exists. That makes a lot of people uncomfortable and probably mostly because deep down they are uncomfortable with themselves.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Good stuff!
In the 2º part, a nice understanding of the Logos, the Love Wisdom principle that is permeating the universe and it is the unified field of consciouness… Henry Stapp equate that in the human being with the intention of increasing the knowdlege, and I have been seeing it more as an intention of searching the truth, but both are almost the same… Surely the colapsing in terms of new knowledge depends also on the potential quanta of information available in each individual…
yes of course microtubles are made out of atoms
That has nothing to do with empirical evidence as to the collapse of the wave function.
this is interesting – why this obsession with the brain? A great lateral thought
I feel like a agent now!
…and thus your reality.
I think you really have to ignore the brain completely in terms of identifying it as some sort of central aspect this. Mind reaches beyond it, always. The brain is always changing in accordance to everything else. Not itself. Observation begins at the senses, not the brain. Things like this.
Human being, or conscious beings? Or observer dependent roles, conscious or not?