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Mind, Brain and the Quantum presents
a radically new approach to the mind-body problem, drawing
together considerations from such diverse fields as the
philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neurophysiology,
relativity and quantum mechanics. The very existence of
consciousness, Michael Lockwood argues, poses a challenge
to the traditional view of matter, as do the paradoxes of
quantum theory. If mind as revealed in introspection, and
matter as manifested in observation and experiment, are
to be seen as dual aspects of a unitary underlying reality,
then a fundamental adjustment is called for in our understanding
of mental and physical phenomena alike.
Michael Lockwood develops a theory that
is rooted both in the latest thinking about the foundations
of quantum mechanics and in some previously neglected ideas
of Bertrand Russell. Its implications are far-reaching and
startlingly at odds with the conventional way of looking
at the world and at the place of mind within it.
Michael Lockwood is Staff Tutor in Philosophy
in the Department for External Studies, Oxford University.
He is co-editor (with Raymond Flood) of The Nature of
Time (Blackwell, 1987).
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