Quantum coherence without quantum mechanics in modeling the unity of consciousness

Marcin Jan Schroeder

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00834-4_10

Quantum coherence without quantum mechanics in modeling the unity of consciousness

Marcin Jan Schroeder

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Abstract

The primary objective of the paper is to demonstrate how the phenomenal unity of consciousness, when interpreted as a result of integrative functions of the brain can be modeled in terms of algebraic properties of the quantum-mechanical formalism detached from its physical interpretation. The model proposed here is going one step beyond extracting the formal property of quantum coherence by making the transition from the lattice theoretic formalism to more suitable and slightly more general framework of closure spaces, but this generalization is independent from the basic idea of using quantum- mechanical formalism in the explanation of possibly non-quantum-mechanical processes in the brain.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-112
Number of pages	16
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5494
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00834-4_10
Publication status	Published - 2009 Jun 18
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd International Symposium on Quantum Interaction - QI 2009 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Interaction, QI 2009 - Saarbrucken, Germany Duration: 2009 Mar 25 → 2009 Mar 27

Keywords

Closure space
Consciousness
Information integration processing
Quantum coherence
Quantum logic

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Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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