Tag: Max Velmans

  • Quantum Dualist Interactionism

    Max Velmans, Understanding Consciousness In Chapter 2, Conscious Souls, Brains and Quantum Mechanics there is a nice section Quantum Dualist Interactionism (p. 17 – 21) where Max Velmans describes works that present interpretation of dualism in the framework of quantum mechanics. Stapp, H. (2007a) ‘Quantum mechanical theories of consciousness’ in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness,…

  • Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain?

    The title is taken from Max Velmans, Where experiences are: Dualist, physicalist, enactive and reflexive accounts of phenomenal consciousness, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Number 4 (2007), 547-563 Preprint: http://cogprints.org/4891/ In the paper, the reflexive model of perception is suggested. “In most respects Figure 3 is the same as Figures 1 and 2.…