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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Two Materialisms (Was: Re: Strong AI and Panpsychism)
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Date: 31 Jan 92 15:13:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)

In article <1992Jan30.193934.7491@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, chalmers@bronze (David Chalmers) writes:
>Eccles favourite explanations of mind involve QM, it's true, but they
>still involve a non-physical mind acting on the brain in various
>ghostly ways.  He just uses quantum indeterminacy to provide the
>causal gap where the mind does its work.  I believe the theory
>involves nonphysical "psychons" acting on physical "dendrons" by
>triggering finely balanced quantum systems.

In the paper-I-still-can't-find-my-copy-of (Proc Roy Soc London B,
mid 80s comes to mind), he explicitly favors mind being a quantum
field, pointing out all the ways it is "nonphysical" enough without
being non-physical.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


