Quote:Dr. Kelvin McQueen, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University, examines the leading quantum-consciousness theories and the unresolved questions that still hinder them all: what exactly is collapse, and what counts as a measurement?
Building on his work with David Chalmers, McQueen argues that the neuroscience of Integrated Information Theory (IIT), with it’s definition of consciousness as intrinsic causal integration (quantified by Φ), offers a novel way forward.
Relevant papers and links:
“Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function”, David J. Chalmers, Kelvin J. McQueen: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02314
“Agency cannot be a purely quantum phenomenon”, Emily C. Adlam, Kelvin J. McQueen, Mordecai Waegell: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13247
“Testing the Conjecture That Quantum Processes Create Conscious Experience”, Hartmut Neven, Adam Zalcman,, Peter Read, Kenneth S Kosik, Tjitse van der Molen, Dirk Bouwmeester, Eve Bodnia, Luca Turin, Christof Koch : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38920...
Understanding Integrated Information Theory: https://www.iit.wiki/ https://kelvinmcqueen.com/ https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/k...
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