Re: Quantum Neurophysics
and the Measurement Problem

Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:02:19 -0800
From: Mitchell Porter <qix@desire.apana.org.au>
To: quantum-d@teleport.com
Subject: Re: Quantum Neurophysics and the Measurement Problem

Gordon Globus:

> 	In QBD brain biosubstrates spontaneously generate various 
> second-order quantum fields that interact. Stones, silicon computers 
> and brains all come under first-order quantum field description, but 
> stones and computers don't themselves hoist second order quantum 
> fields (whatever the computer might simulate), whereas brains do. Each 
> of the participating second-order quantum fields subserves a different 
> function, are "representatives" of memory, cognition, and reality. 
> Perception of the world *results* from the quantum field interaction, or 
> better, the perceptible world *unfolds* from the quantum field 
> interaction (or even better, "thrownness in the world" continually 
> unfolds from the interaction). Paraphrasing Neisser in "Cognition and 
> Reality," perception is where quantum cognition, quantum memory and 
> quantum reality meet.

A few questions:

1. What's a "second-order quantum field"? 

2. How is it that some things (brains) produce them, whereas other
things (computers) don't?

3. What advantage do second-order quantum fields have over first-order
ones in explaining perception or cognition?

--
-mitch
http://desire.apana.org.au/~qix