文档介绍：On Quantum
Physics and
Ordinary
Consciousness
by Stephen Jones
On the question of whether physics has anything to say about
consciousness.
I would like to open by referring you to Michael Lockwood's talk. He seems
to be saying that we need a better quantum description of the world because
at present the physical view has no room in it for such phenomenal matters
as qualia, . the feels and qualities of the things that we know; and
meaning, the factor which makes the contents of our consciousness things
we know about; their names, their relations, etc.
Michael Lockwood's talk on "The Enigma of Sentience"
I think what he is saying is that the stuff we know as the qualities of things,
the information that we have about things has actual physical existence,
qualia "are the very essence of physical being" [Lockwood] and so what
does this say about the state of physics' description of the world.
I understand Lockwood to be suggesting that the phenomenal: what we
experience and report about; and the physical: what it is that induces and
processes the sensations, are two different aspects or representations of the
same 'stuff'. It might be suggested that these two aspects of the world (its
physical emodiment and our experience of it) have a kind plementary
relationship, which others (possibly even Bohr) seem to argue is a
relationship analogous to wave/plementarity.
On Quantum Physics
The tasks of physics in the early years of this century concerned two matters,
one was the macro universe which Einstein dealt with in his relativity
theories and the other was the micro universe. Quantum physics is the theory
now used in scientific discussion of the micro-universe, that is, the
sub-atomic world.
Before it was developed two problems existed for physicists to explicate.
One was the problem of the corpuscular versus the vibrational theory of light
and the other was the problem of atomic spectra and the discrete, quantised,
energy values