Globus G.G. The Transparent Becoming of World: A crossing between process philosophy and quantum neurophilosophy

New York: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 189 p.The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect realism and idealism, the continual becoming of world is explained by a novel integration of process dynamics, as formulated by Whitehead, Heidegger and Bohm, with the burgeoning field of quantum neurophilosophy. A rich ontological duality newly opened by quantum brain theory is exploited: the “between-two” of dual quantum modes. Existence as world-thrownness is between-two in waking and dreaming alike. This highly original interdisciplinary book may be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, consciousness researchers, indeed anyone attracted to the enigma of their own lived existence. (Series A)EditorialLCC data
dedicationAcknowledgements
Quotations
World thrownness
Process philosophy
Quantum neurophilosophy
Methods
Strategy of presentationDirect perception as information pick-up
Direct perception as knowing
Qualia
The dreams of a robot
Radical externalism
OverviewDamasio on indirect realism
Indirect realism and perceptual "illusions"
Metzinger's indirect scientific realism
Virtual realities (VRs)
Structural realism
Pragmatism
Indirect realism as neutral monism
A gestalt version of indirect realism
Overview
Borges' solipsistic idealism
Berkeley's God-dependent idealism
OverviewBohm's holonomic dynamics
The law of overall necessity
Soma-significance
Active information
Bohm's theory of consciousnessCreative advance and novel concrescence
Actual events
Eternal objects
God for Whitehead
Whitehead and world
Preliminaries
Sein, Da-sein, the Dasein
Zeit
In-der-Welt-sein
Seyn, Wesen
Abgrund and Zeit-Raum
Das Ereignis
Das Zwischen
Process and world in Whitehead, Heidegger and Bohm
Marching to a different drummer
Stapp's Copenhagen re-interpretation
Stapp as process theorist
Objective reduction (OR)
Qualia
Consciousness
The brain's orchestration of objective reduction
Penrose-Hameroff v Stapp
Symmetry and the water dipole field
Symmetry-breaking and memory
Consciousness
Symmetry-breaking and macroscopic order
The brain’s "connectivity"
Dissipative systems
Dissipation and consciousness
Consciousness as "intentional"
ReviewThe Tao symbol and the between-two
Some previous approaches to the between-two
Thermofield theory of traces and recognition traces
Macroscopic quantum objects
Structural realism and the measurement problem
The explicate order as between-two
Qualities of world
The problem of consciousness
Epilogue
AbbreviationsName index
Subject index
The series Advances in Consciousness Research