Quantum closures and disclosures : thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics / Gordon G. Globus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Globus, Gordon G., 1934-

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 50.

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Quantum field theory.

Neuropsychology--Philosophy.

Neuropsychology.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

xxi, 198 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Underlying both developments is a new ontology of nonCartesian dual modes whose rich provenance is their "between." World is disclosed in the lumen naturale of dual modes belonging-together in their between; all presencing is a function of a "~conjugate" form of match in the between. This surprising rapprochement between a powerful tradition within continental philosophy and the 20th-century quantum revolution in science is fruitfully applied to crucial issues in philosophy, brain science, mathematics and psychiatry.Related Titles: Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An introduction, edited by Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue (1995), and My Double Unveiled: The dissipative quantum model of the brain, by Giuseppe Vitiello (2001).

Contents:

Quantum Closures and Disclosures

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Dedication page

Table of contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Pre-amble

Chapter 1. Heidegger and the Quantum Brain

1.0. Introduction

1.1. Dasein's brain

1.2. Reading "Heidegger

1.3. "Be-ing holds sway as Enowning" (CP: 183)

1.4. Heidegger and science

1.5. A brief history of Umezawa's Quantum Brain Theory

1.6. Macroscopic quantum systems and the problem of presence

1.7. Quantum Brain Dynamics (QBD)

1.8. Consciousness and memory in QBD

1.9. Vitiello's thermofield Quantum Brain Dynamics

1.10. Quantum cybernetics, participation and matching

1.11. Vitiello's Double

1.12. Ontological implications of dual mode Quantum Brain Dynamics

1.13. The dissipative quantum brain as open system

1.14. Universe and universe

1.15. Time-reversal

1.16. My Double, Myself

1.17. God's Eye

1.18. Ereignis ... Enowning

1.19. Seyn, Sein, Wesen, Ereignis

1.20. Angst

1.21. The beginning (der Anfang)

1.22. The problem of transcendence

1.23. I am

1.24. Hameroff and Penrose's proto-experience

1.25. The role of the classical brain

1.26. The binding problem

1.27. What is presence good for?

1.28. Da-sein and Seinsentwurf

1.29. "Grounders of the Abyss

1.30. Stickings

Chapter 2. PostHeideggerian Postphenomenology and the Quantum Brain

2.0. Introduction

2.1. The postphenomenology of Hubert Dreyfus

2.1.a. Absorbed coping

2.1.b. Robust and deflationary realism

2.1.c. Quantum being-in-the-world or Background

2.1.d. Concealed plenitude

2.1.e. Das Gevierte, the Fourfold

2.1.f. Psychopathology and attunement

2.2. The postphenomenology of Pauli Pylkkö

2.2.a. Ontotheological thinking

2.2.b. Experience

2.2.c. Aconceptual experience

2.2.d. Identity.

2.2.e. Holonomic situatedness

2.2.f. More on aconceptual experience

2.2.g. The problem of how aconceptual understanding is learned

2.2.h. Symmetry and order

2.2.i. Freedom

2.2.j. Pylkkö on "No brain, no Dasein

2.3. The postphenomenology of Arkady Plotnitsky

2.3.a. General economy and the principle of complementarity

2.3.b. Bataille and the unknowable

2.3.c. Plotnitsky on play

2.4. Précis

Chapter 3. Derrida and the Quantum Brain

3.0. Transition

3.1. Of spirit (Geist)

3.2. Of quantum spirit

3.3. Self-referentiality and undecidability in Gödel and Derrida

3.4. The liar paradox

3.5. Gödel's self-referential undecidable construction

3.6. Marks and re-marks

3.7. Three rules of the between

3.8. Dual mode QBD and Gödel's theorem

3.9. The Derridean type of undecidability

3.10. The transcendental and the plus-prèsent

3.11. Derridean infrastructural dynamics

3.12. The dynamics of arche-trace

3.13. Différance and its Freudian provenance

3.14. Supplementarity and the infinite

3.15. The lack in self

3.16. Iterability

3.17. The self-erasing trace

3.18. Exit from quantum closure

3.19. Inscription

3.20. The general theory of doubling

3.21. The now, time and the excessive

3.22. Physical time and subjective time

3.23. La dissémination

3.24. The tain of the mirror

Chapter 4. Post-amble

4.0. "Our" universe

4.1. Fault and de-fault

4.2. O hidden!

4.3. Neils Bohr's emblem

4.4. Dual mode interpretation of the tao symbol

4.5. Tag

References

Index

The series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH (AiCR).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index.

ISBN:

9786612255434

9789027296702

9027296707

9781282255432

1282255436

9781423772262

1423772261

9789027251794

9027251797

OCLC:

69156298