Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics

Shan Gao is Professor of Philosophy at the Research Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University. He is the founder and managing editor of the International Journal of Quantum Foundations and is the author of several books, including the recent monograph The Meaning of the Wave Function: In Search of the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics (2017). His research focuses on the philosophy of physics, especially the foundations of quantum mechanics. He also has interests in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science.

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

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