Quantum Closures and Disclosures: Thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics

Advances in Consciousness Research #50

by Gordon G. Globus

Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Underlying both developments is a new ontology of nonCartesian dual modes whose rich provenance is their "between." World is disclosed in the lumen naturale of dual modes belonging-together in their between; all presencing is a function of a "~conjugate" form of match in the between. This surprising rapprochement between a powerful tradition within continental philosophy and the 20th-century quantum revolution in science is fruitfully applied to crucial issues in philosophy, brain science, mathematics and psychiatry.

Related Quantum Brain Dynamics and An introduction , edited by Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue (1995), and My Double The dissipative quantum model of the brain , by Giuseppe Vitiello (2001)

220 pages, Hardcover

First published April 28, 2003