Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer

Author(s): Henry P. Stapp

Series: The Frontiers Collection

Publisher: Springer, Year: 2007

The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was essentially mindless: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with conscious experiences entering only passively. In the last century these classical concepts were found inadequate. In the new quantum mechanics theory, conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by physically described aspects alone.