The Place of Consciousness in Modern Physics
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Wigner's idea that consciousness is the magical ingredient necessary to solve the measurement problem has been largely discredited.
“What remained were vague ideas about a central role that some physicists such as Eugene Wigner ascribed to life, or rather to consciousness, as the magical ingredient necessary to solve the measurement problem [34]. This idea has also been largely discredited.”
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Pizzi, R. M. R. (2008)
- Authors
- Wigner, E. P.
- Corresponding author
- Wigner, Eugene P.
- Venue
- Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 261-267
- OpenAlex
- W2256399186
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.04
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Springer eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Keywords
- consciousness, Eugene Wigner, quantum mechanics, quantum perturbation theory, group theory, fundamental symmetries, philosophy of physics
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