文档介绍：Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
doi:.1598
Published online
Review
Quantum physics in neuroscience and psychology:
a neurophysical model of mind–brain interaction
Jeffrey M. Schwartz1, Henry P. Stapp2 and Mario Beauregard3,4,5,*
1UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, NPI Los Angeles, CA 90024-1759, USA
2Theoretical Physics Mailstop 5104/50A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720-8162, USA
3De´partement de Psychologie, Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie Expe´rimentale et Cognition
(CERNEC), 4De´partement de Radiologie, and 5Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques (CRSN),
Universite´ de Montre´al, . 6128, ursale Centre-ille, Montre´al, Que´bec H3C 3J7, Canada
Neuropsychological research on the neural basis of behaviour generally posits that brain mechanisms
will ultimately suffice to explain all psychologically described phenomena. This assumption stems
from the idea that the brain is made up entirely of material particles and fields, and that all causal
mechanisms relevant to neuroscience can therefore be formulated solely in terms of properties of
these elements. Thus, terms having intrinsic mentalistic and/or experiential content (. ‘feeling’,
‘knowing’ and ‘effort’) are not included as primary causal factors. This theoretical restriction is
motivated primarily by ideas about the natural world that have been known to be fundamentally
incorrect for more than three-quarters of a century. Contemporary basic physical theory differs
profoundly from classic physics on the important matter of how the consciousness of human agents
enters into the structure of empirical phenomena. The new principles contradict the older idea that
local mechanical processes alone can account for the structure of all observed empirical data.
Contemporary physical theory brings directly and irreducibly into the overall causal structure certain
psychologically descr