Quantum mind and social science: unifying physical and social ontology
There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this groundbreaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phen...
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| Zusammenfassung: | There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this groundbreaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon. In the first half of the book Wendt justifies the insertion of quantum theory into social scientific debates, introduces social scientists to quantum theory and the philosophical controversy about its interpretation, and then defends the quantum consciousness hypothesis against the orthodox, classical approach to the mind-body problem. In the second half, he develops the implications of this metaphysical perspective for the nature of language and the Agent-Structure Problem in social ontology. Wendt's argument is a revolutionary development which raises fundamental questions about the nature of social life and the work of those who study it |
| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographic references (pages 294-344) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 354 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781107442924 |
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Contents
Acknowledgments page x
1 Preface to a quantum social science 1
Why are we here? 1
Introduction 2
The causal closure of physics 7
Classical social science 11
The anomaly of consciousness 14
The mind-body problem 14
Intentionality and consciousness 18
The threat of vitalism 21
The anomaly of social structure 22
Where is the state? 23
The threat of reification 25
As if explanation and unscientific fictions 26
My central question, and answer in brief 28
Re-inventing the wheel? 34
Situating your observer 36
Part I Quantum theory and its interpretation 39
Introduction 39
2 Three experiments 43
The Two-Slit Experiment 43
Measurement is creative 46
Collapse of the wave function 46
Complementarity 48
The Bell Experiments 50
The Delayed-Choice Experiment 54
3 Six challenges 58
The challenge to materialism 59
The challenge to atomism 60
The challenge to determinism 62
The challenge to mechanism 63
The challenge to absolute space and time 65
The challenge to the subject-object distinction 66
4 Five interpretations 70
The problem and a meta-interpretive framework 71
Instrumentalism: the Copenhagen Interpretation 73
Realism I: materialist interpretations 76
The GRW Interpretation 76
The Many Worlds Interpretation 77
Realism II: idealist interpretations 81
The Subjectivist Interpretation 81
The Böhm Interpretation 85
Part II Quantum consciousness and life 91
Introduction 91
5 Quantum brain theory 95
Your quantum brain 96
The Fröhlich tradition 98
The Umezawa tradition 101
Assessing the current debate 102
6 Panpsychism and neutral monism 109
Panpsychism 111
Background 112
Defining psyche, aka subjectivity 114
Projecting subjectivity through the tree of life 116
... And then all the way down 119
The combination problem and quantum coherence 123
Neutral monism and the origin of time 124
7 A quantum vitalism 131
The materialist-vitalist controversy 132
Life in quantum perspective 137
Cognition 139
Will 139
Experience 141
Why call it vitalism? 143
Part III A quantum model of man 149
Introduction 149
8 Quantum cognition and rational choice 154
Quantum decision theory 157
Order effects in quantum perspective 157
Paradoxes of probability judgment 159
Quantizing preference reversals 161
Rationality unbound? 164
Quantum game theory: the next frontier 169
9 Agency and quantum will 174
Reasons, teleology, and advanced action 175
Free will and quantum theory 182
The philosophical literature 183
The Libet experiments 185
10 Non-local experience in time 189
The qualitative debate on changing the past 191
The Epistemological view 192
The Ontological view 193
The physics of changing the past 198
Part IV Language, light, and other minds 207
Introduction 207
11 Quantum semantics and meaning holism 210
Composition versus context in meaning 212
Quantum contextualism 215
12 Direct perception and other minds 222
The problem of perception 223
The dual nature of light 226
Holographic projection and visual perception 228
Semantic non-locality and intersubjectivity 230
The theory of mind debate 230
Semantic non-locality and other minds 233
Three objections considered 237
Part V The agent-structure problem redux 243
Introduction 243
13 An emergent, holistic but flat ontology 247
Supervenience meets externalism 250
Agents, structures, and quantum emergence 255
Downward causation in social structures 260
14 Toward a quantum vitalist sociology 267
The holographic state 268
The state as an organism 273
The state and collective consciousness 275
The politics of vitalist sociology 281
Conclusion 283
Night thoughts on epistemology 284
Too elegant not to be true? 288
Bibliography 294
Index 345
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