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  2. Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Researchers found that 6% of participants (2 of the 33) indicated that they believed the observer "plays a distinguished physical role (e.g., wave-function collapse by consciousness)". This poll also states that 55% (18 of the 33) indicated that they believed the observer "plays a fundamental role in the application of the formalism but plays ...

  3. Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Levine thinks such thought experiments demonstrate an explanatory gap between consciousness and the physical world: even if consciousness is reducible to physical things, consciousness cannot be explained in terms of physical things, because the link between physical things and consciousness is a contingent link. [43]

  4. Epiphenomenalism - Wikipedia

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    Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem.It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but do not themselves influence physical events.

  5. Neutral monism - Wikipedia

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    The mind–body problem is the problem of explaining how mind relates to matter. The hard problem is a related philosophical problem targeted at physicalist theories of mind specifically: the problem arises because it is not obvious how a purely physical universe could give rise to conscious experience. This is because physical explanations are ...

  6. Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe ...

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    The notion that quantum physics must be the underlying mechanism for consciousness first emerged in the 1990s, when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose, Ph.D., and anesthesiologist Stuart ...

  7. Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia

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    The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world.. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness and the nature of particular mental states.

  8. Albert Paul Weiss - Wikipedia

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    The elements of physical properties were quality, intensity, extent and duration. Very few psychologists agreed with Weiss' physical elements. [4] Weiss believed defining consciousness as experience was lacking because there was no way to expand upon this definition. [4]

  9. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly given answer is that we attribute consciousness to other people because we see that they resemble us in appearance and behavior; we reason that if they look like us and act like us, they must be like us in other ways, including having experiences of the sort that we do. [70]

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