Philosophy of Physics Seminar (Thursday - Week 2, HT23)
Thursday 26 January, 4:30pm
Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
Kobi Kremnitzer (Mathematical Institute, Oxford): 'Scientific theories of consciousness, the closure of the (current) physical, and quantum collapse'
In recent years several theories of consciousness have been proposed such as Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory. In this talk I will ask what a scientific theory of consciousness would look like. I will claim that such a theory would need to say what consciousness does and not only what consciousness is. I will explain that in case consciousness has an effect on the quantum evolution (so the current physical is not closed) then to first order this implies a quantum collapse model. I will then discuss how such collapse models could be related to consciousness and the kind of predictions such models will have. This is joint work with Johaness Kleiner.
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