The Transparent Becoming of World: A Crossing Between Process Philosophy and Quantum Neurophilosophy (Advances In Consciousness Research)

The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect realism and idealism, the continual becoming of world is explained by a novel integration of process dynamics, as formulated by Whitehead, Heidegger and Bohm, with the burgeoning field of quantum neurophilosophy. A rich ontological duality newly opened by quantum brain theory is exploited: the “between-two” of dual quantum modes. Existence as world-thrownness is between-two in waking and dreaming alike. This highly original interdisciplinary book may be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, consciousness researchers, indeed anyone attracted to the enigma of their own lived existence. (Series A) The Transparent Becoming of World......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 dedication page......Page 6 Table of contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Quotations......Page 14 1.1 World thrownness......Page 16 1.2 Process philosophy......Page 17 1.3 Quantum neurophilosophy......Page 19 1.4 Methods......Page 22 1.5 Strategy of presentation......Page 23 2.1 Introduction......Page 26 2.2.1 Direct perception as information pick-up......Page 27 2.2.2 Direct perception as knowing......Page 30 2.2.3 Qualia......Page 32 2.2.4 The dreams of a robot......Page 34 2.2.5 Radical externalism......Page 36 2.2.6 Overview......Page 39 2.3.1 Introduction......Page 40 2.3.2 Damasio on indirect realism......Page 41 2.3.3 Indirect realism and perceptual "illusions" ......Page 42 2.3.4 Metzinger's indirect scientific realism......Page 43 2.3.5 Virtual realities (VRs)......Page 44 2.3.6 Structural realism......Page 47 2.3.7 Pragmatism......Page 48 2.3.8 Indirect realism as neutral monism......Page 49 2.3.9 A gestalt version of indirect realism......Page 53 2.3.10 Overview......Page 55 2.4.1 Borges' solipsistic idealism......Page 56 2.4.2 Berkeley's God-dependent idealism......Page 58 2.5 Overview......Page 62 3.1 Introduction......Page 64 3.2 Bohm's holonomic dynamics......Page 65 3.2.1 The law of overall necessity......Page 67 3.2.2 Soma-significance......Page 68 3.2.3 Active information......Page 70 3.2.4 Bohm's theory of consciousness......Page 72 3.3.1 Introduction......Page 73 3.3.2 Creative advance and novel concrescence......Page 75 3.3.3 Actual events......Page 76 3.3.5 Eternal objects......Page 77 3.3.6 God for Whitehead......Page 78 3.3.7 Whitehead and world......Page 81 3.4.1 Preliminaries......Page 82 3.4.2 Sein, Da-sein, the Dasein......Page 84 3.4.3 Zeit......Page 85 3.4.4 In-der-Welt-sein......Page 87 3.4.5. Seyn, Wesen......Page 90 3.4.6 Abgrund and Zeit-Raum......Page 91 3.4.7 Das Ereignis......Page 92 3.4.8 Das Zwischen......Page 93 3.5 Process and world in Whitehead, Heidegger and Bohm......Page 95 4.1 Marching to a different drummer......Page 98 4.2 Stapp's Copenhagen re-interpretation......Page 100 4.3 Stapp as process theorist......Page 105 4.4.1 Objective reduction (OR)......Page 107 4.4.2 Qualia......Page 108 4.4.4 Consciousness......Page 109 4.4.5 The brain's orchestration of objective reduction......Page 110 4.5 Penrose-Hameroff v. Stapp......Page 111 4.6.1 Symmetry and the water dipole field......Page 113 4.6.2 Symmetry-breaking and memory......Page 116 4.6.3 Consciousness......Page 118 4.6.4 Symmetry-breaking and macroscopic order......Page 119 4.6.5 The brain’s "connectivity" ......Page 120 4.6.6 Dissipative systems......Page 121 4.6.8 Dissipation and consciousness......Page 124 4.6.9 Consciousness as "intentional"......Page 127 4.7 Review......Page 130 5.1 Introduction......Page 134 5.2 The Tao symbol and the between-two......Page 135 5.3 Some previous approaches to the between-two......Page 137 5.4 Thermofield theory of traces and recognition traces......Page 140 5.5 Macroscopic quantum objects......Page 142 5.6 Structural realism and the measurement problem......Page 145 5.7 The explicate order as between-two......Page 146 5.8 Qualities of world......Page 148 5.9 The problem of consciousness......Page 150 Epilogue......Page 164 Abbreviations......Page 170 References......Page 172 Name index......Page 180 Subject index......Page 182 The series Advances in Consciousness Research......Page 186 "The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. This highly original interdisciplinary book may be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, consciousness researchers, indeed anyone attracted to the enigma of their own lived existence."--Jacket