{"id":161108,"date":"2023-03-27T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/quantum-aspects-of-the-brain-mind-relationship-a-hypothesis-with-supporting-evidence"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:24:58","slug":"quantum-aspects-of-the-brain-mind-relationship-a-hypothesis-with-supporting-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/quantum-aspects-of-the-brain-mind-relationship-a-hypothesis-with-supporting-evidence","title":{"rendered":"Quantum aspects of the brain-mind relationship: A hypothesis with supporting evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-aspects-of-the-brain-mind-relationship-a-hypothesis-with-supporting-evidence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract.<\/p>\n<p>If all aspects of the mind-brain relationship were adequately explained by classical physics, then there would be no need to propose alternatives. But faced with possibly unresolvable puzzles like qualia and free will, other approaches are required. In alignment with a suggestion by Heisenberg in 1958, we propose a model whereby the world consists of two elements: Ontologically real <em>Possibles<\/em> that do not obey Aristotle\u2019s law of the excluded middle, and ontologically real <em>Actuals<\/em> that do. Based on this view, which bears resemblance to von Neumann\u2019s 1955 proposal (von Neumann, 1955), and more recently by Stapp and others (Stapp, 2007; Rosenblum and Kuttner, 2006), measurement that is registered by an observer\u2019s mind converts <em>Possibles<\/em> into <em>Actuals<\/em>. This quantum-oriented approach raises the intriguing prospect that some aspects of mind may be quantum, and that mind may play an active role in the physical world. A body of empirical evidence supports these possibilities, strengthening our proposal that the mind-brain relationship may be partially quantum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract. If all aspects of the mind-brain relationship were adequately explained by classical physics, then there would be no need to propose alternatives. But faced with possibly unresolvable puzzles like qualia and free will, other approaches are required. In alignment with a suggestion by Heisenberg in 1958, we propose a model whereby the world consists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}