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Subject: Re: Stapp on Mind as a Quantum Effect
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In article <3igcnq$4ur@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
Jack Sarfatti <sarfatti@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>                  Edited for Internet by Jack Sarfatti
>Stapp's paper opposes the view represented by Bill Calvin, for 
>example in http://www.well.com/www/wcalvin/
>
>                       February 8,1995, LBL-36574
>
>
>Why Classical Mechanics Cannot Naturally Accommodate Consciousness 
>                        But Quantum Mechanics Can.
>
>                                  PART I
>
>                             Henry P. Stapp
>
>                        Theoretical Physics Group
>                      Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
>                         University of California
>                       Berkeley, California 94720
>
>
>                                Abstract
>
>       It is argued on the basis of certain mathematical 
>characteristics that classical mechanics is not constitutionally 
>suited to accomodate consciousness, whereas quantum mechanics is. 
>These mathematical characteristics pertain to the nature of the 
>information represented in the state of the brain, and the way this 
>information enters into the dynamics.
>
>
>                Prepared for a Special Issue of "Psyche"
>
>
> *This work was supported by the Director, Office of Energy 
>Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of 
>High Energy Physics of the U. S. Department of Energy under
>Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098.

I don't believe it. This must be some kind of an ABIAN joke.

If the above is true then the whole country has gone bonkers.
What pure drivel!


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