The Role Of Consciousness In The Physical World

In this book, scientists discuss manifestations and ramifications of consciousness in their various fields: quantum mechanics, cosmology, psychology, engineering, information science, and technology policy. They attempt to define critical experiments and to propose models that explicitly acknowledge the role of consciousness in physical reality.

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Do we live in a deterministic universe that passively awaits our observation and utilization? Or do we create our own reality in the process of observing it? These questions, writes the editor, traditionally have been the domain of philosophers, theologians, and romantic writers; in recent years, though, they have become a concern of scientists. Ad