Wigner, Remarks on the Mind-Body Question
Essay Review : Wigner’s View of Physical Reality by Michael Esfeld
Orthodoxy
and Heterodoxy in the Research on the Foundations of Quantum
Physics: E.P. Wigner's Case by Olival Freire
A Critical Review of Wigner’s Work on the
Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Theory by Hans Primas and Michael Esfeld
Understanding
Quantum Physics And Its Implications by Casey Blood. See
also his fqxi
essay and his correspondence
with Henry Stapp. His view is essentially the same as mine:
the main difference at first sight is that he qualifies his
interpretation as "without collapse" while I qualify it as "the
way collapse occurs". I see this only as a difference of
vocabulary, not of meaning: we both agree against Stapp, by the
fact I view the "collapse" as a selection of world after
decoherence, while Stapp considers a collapse before decoherence.
Still I keep preferring my vocabulary, in the following sense: it
would only be meaningful to say that the physical state stays
intact after observation, if it existed in the first place: if the
initial creation of the state of the universe at the big bang
fundamentally differed from the later selections of worlds by
observations; but I challenge the idea of such a difference. His new site
does not contain his interpretation anymore but only links to his article where it
is presented.
John Archibald Wheeler : Law without law
On the problem of the interpretation of quantum physics (A. A. Grib, 2014), focusing on the "Copenhagen" and many-worlds interpretations, which are his favorites. But by "Copenhagen interpretation" he actually means the Mind makes collapse interpretation.David J. Chalmers
Consciousness and its
Place in Nature : see from page 29, section "9 Type-D
Dualism"
Consciousness
and the collapse of the wave function video of talk given in
August 2014
The
Theory of Observation in Quantum Mechanics by Fritz London
and Edmond Bauer (1939)
David Hodgson : bio - Criticism and his reply
Evan Harris Walker : Dualism, Causal Loops in Time, and the Quantum Observer Theory of Paraphysical Phenomena
Some more stuff on Quantum Mind and Consciousness – Interesting and Useful Read
The
Idealistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Amit Goswami. (I agree with him on the main metaphysical claims,
except that I don't follow the spirituality teachings he claims
to draw from it, such as any specifically hinduist claim and such nonsensical claim as "values are under attack"; and like
other authors, he is too easily satisfied to directly report his conclusions without caring to develop rigorous arguments to make it clearer that it isn't pseudo-science.
Also he spoils a lot of his credibility as quantum physicist by giving this incorrect description at minute 24 of this video: "electrons jump from one atomic orbit
to the other without going through the intervening space")
A defense of this view by Jan Szafranski
In defence of quantum idealism by Michael Alexeevich Popov (fqxi essay and short bio)
Quantum Mechanics and the Hard Problem by Lennart WarnemyrDoes
Quantum Physics Make it Easier to Believe in God? by Stephen M. Barr (original
post with comments)
Richard Conn Henry introduces quantum mechanics, and comments on Robert Lanza's Biocentrism, Alain Aspect's experiment , spookiness , Quantum Enigma , Arthur Stanley Eddington's book The Nature of the Physical World (first edition 1928), and wrote A clearer Light (published in a shorter version in Nature as The mental Universe) and The real scandal of quantum mechanics ; more philosophical texts : Darby’s Dream - review "The God Theory" by Bernard Haisch - A call for an open, informed study of all aspects of consciousness with about a hundred signers
Bernardo Kastrup's Metaphysical Speculations : while a bit far from physics, he expresses some metaphysics in pantheist terms.
Quantum Consciousness course at University of California, Berkeley
Idealism and the Quantum Mechanics J. N. Mohanty (History of Philosophy Quarterly, Oct., 1989)
Jean Staune : Towards non physical realismMichael Prescott : summing up some ideas on quantum physics
Physics forums : Consciousness
and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Science and Philosophy Forums : Quantum
Mechanics, consciousness, schools of interpretation
Bob Doyle (bio), the information philosopher : years ago he claimed to promote the concept of libertarian free will and call for researchers to develop it ; but he turns out to be a sort of materialist (while senselessly labelling his position otherwise) and compatibilist (not determinist indeed but involving physical randomness, sorry I don't see what it brings to free will), promoting the spontaneous collapse interpretation he re-labelled "information interpretation" full of nonsense and pseudo-physics.
Bibliography: Consciousness and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics compiled by David ChalmersPhilpapers : Consciousness and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - Quantum Mechanisms of Consciousness - Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and many others
Dynamical Psychology Journal of Complex Mental ProcessesIs Science Compatible with Our Desire for Freedom? 2010 Experts Meeting with diverse contributions
Antoine
Suarez (other
presentation), founding director of the Center for Quantum Philosophy
in Zurich : Quantum
randomness can be controlled by free will (2008) - video
talk Does
Free Will Require New Physics? - What
Does Quantum Physics Have to Do with Free Will? (2013)
Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
Quantum Physics of Consciousness (October 26, 2011) by many authors (unfortunately looks like a mere mess of diverse views and speculations...). Amazon.
The Mysterious Universe, Sir James Jeans, 1932
The Nature of the Physical World (first edition 1928), Arthur Stanley Eddington, available for free download
Time, causality and the quantum theory : Studies in the Philosophy of science (S. Mehlberg, 1980), presented the debate on idealism in quantum theory as something serious, even if the author does not subscribe to it.
Pauli's
ideas on mind and matter in the context of contemporary science ; other
pages
on Pauli
Scaruffi : a list of theories of quantum consciousness - Thymos: Studies on Consciousness, Cognition and Life
A “Participatory Universe” of J. A. Wheeler as an Intentional Correlate of Embodied Subjects and an Example of Purposiveness in Physics - Does the Universe Exist if We're Not Looking?The Mind-Matter Mapping Project : working group on causality-physics modeling
A view mixing ideas of hidden variables and consciousness:Many-minds interpretation:
Mikhail Borisovich Menskij wrote on an "Extended Everett's
Concept" (which has important similarities with ideas of the Seth material, in particular Seth Speaks chapter 16) : articles
in Russian ; in
English:
PK
on random number generators
Association TransCommunication
Psi and the Problem
of Consciousness - What
Can Consciousness Anomalies Tell Us about Quantum Mechanics?
by George
Williams
Pamela Heath: Mind-Matter Interaction: A Review of Historical Reports, Theory and Research (book to buy, 319 pages) (2011)
A Compendium of the Evidence for Psi and other links on psi research Scientific
Evidence for Psi Phenomena by Dean I. Radin
The
Scientific Evidence for Psi at The Weiler Psi blog
Helmut Schmidt : The Strange Properties of Psychokinesis - Collapse of the State Vector and Psychokinetic Effect - Comparison of a teleological model with a quantum collapse model of psi in the RetroPsychoKinesis Project(Quantum Consciousness, research work on the brain, by Stuart Hameroff, I feel quite skeptical of)
Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern by Dean Radin, discussed here
The Global Consciousness Project
Colloque international: Pour une approche quantique de la conscience (archive) (2013) - un article en français
Dr. Jean-Jacques Charbonier, docteur-anesthésiste, a une longue expérience professionnelle d'observations du coma et autres états, et conclut à la réalité de la conscience hors du fonctionnement cérébral.une chaine youtube sur le paranormal
Retour sur dix années de recherche sur les sorties hors du corps
Enquêtes Extraordinaires Les Signes De L'au Delà
vidéo d'expérience avec des poussins (video of experiments with chicks) - thesis in French - archive of article in French - articles in English here and there. "Skeptic" criticism was criticized here and there. But another experiment on this gave negative results.
Olivier Emphoux : aux frontières de la mort et du paranormal
Pour une approche quantique de la conscience : introduction du colloque de mai 2013 par Jean Staune et Anne de Constantin
Des gens sortis du coma en parlant une autre langue
Les murs qui parlent
Many Worlds(I also have a page on metaphysics, strongly connected with this issue of interpreting quantum physics, though it may be not so clean, I will consider to revise it later.)
The de Broglie-Bohm interpretation