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Cochran, Christopher.

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Quantum Consciousness and the Search for a New Paradigm: How Science Can Be Spiritual.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Quantum Consciousness and the Search for a New Paradigm: How Science Can Be Spiritual./
Author:	Cochran, Christopher.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	257 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10285503
ISBN:	9780355130881

Quantum Consciousness and the Search for a New Paradigm: How Science Can Be Spiritual.
Cochran, Christopher.

Quantum Consciousness and the Search for a New Paradigm: How Science Can Be Spiritual. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 257 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017.

This dissertation examines how a network of "quantum consciousness" scientists have sought to change the epistemological and ethical boundaries of scientific research in hopes of creating knowledge that can adequately address contemporary problems in both science and society more generally. Quantum consciousness (QC) is defined as both scientific research and spiritual practice that seeks to understand consciousness in light of foundational questions that emerge from quantum physics. QC scientists believe neuroscience alone cannot provide a scientific explanation of consciousness because neuroscience is premised on "materialism" of Newtonian physics. QC scientists draw on the authority of physics to argue the correct scientific account of the mind-matter relationship will have to incorporate quantum physics, understood as the correct theory of matter since the quantum revolution of the 1920's. Insofar as the physical delimits and shapes the mental, QC makes good on the potential quantum physics holds for redefining what mind is and can be.

ISBN: 9780355130881Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Cultural anthropology.

Quantum Consciousness and the Search for a New Paradigm: How Science Can Be Spiritual.
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