Consciousness and the Path Integral

[Philip Thrift]

Quantum Mechanics and the Consistency of Conscious Experience

Michael Silberstein, Mark Stuckey

Preprint · January 2019

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330751664_Quantum_Mechanics_and_the_Consistency_of_Conscious_Experience

In our path integral constraint-based account, the wavefunction in configuration space is not even used, so our account is trivially psi-epistemic. 

Essentially, the mystery in both experiments is caused by a dynamical/causal view of QM, e.g., time-evolved states in Hilbert space, and as we show this mystery can be avoided by a spatiotemporal, constraint-based view of QM, e.g., path integral calculation of probability amplitudes using future boundary conditions. 

What will become clear is that rather than furiously seeking some way to make dubious deep connections between quantum physics and conscious experience, the kinds of 4D adynamical global constraints that are fundamental to both classical and quantum physics and the relationship between them, also constrain conscious experience. That is, physics properly understood, already

is psychology.

    Michael Silberstein, W.M. Stuckey, and Timothy McDevitt

    Beyond the Dynamical Universe:

         Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced

    (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2018).

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