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A Quantum Physics Model of the Timing of Conscious Experience

 Fred Alan Wolf
  
 

Abstract:

In his recent book (Penrose 1994) Roger Penrose suggests that "if, in some manifestation of consciousness, classical reasoning about the temporal ordering of events leads us to a contradictory conclusion, then this is strong indication that quantum actions are indeed at work!" Here we examine a quantum theory of the relationship between the awareness of timings of events and their corresponding physical correlates and show that indeed not only are quantum actions at work, they are indispensable in explaining the temporal paradoxes inherent in the phenomena.

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