Time and Consciousness in a时间与意识

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1、TimeandConsciousnessinaQuantumWorld.AugustoCesarLoboDepartmentofPhysics-FederalUniversityofOuroPreto-Brazil∗AbstractWeaddresstherelationbetweentwoapparentlydistinctproblems:Thequestforadeeperunder-standingofthenatureofconsciousnessandthesearchfortimeandspaceasemergentstructures

2、inthequantummechanicalworld.Wealsoadvanceatoy-modelproposalofemergenceoftimefromatimelessunusmundusquantum-likespacebyusingAharonov’stwostateformalismofquantummechanics.Wefurtherspeculateontheseissueswithinaquantumcognitiveperspectivewithpar-ticularinterestintworecentpapersonth

3、isemergingfieldofscience.One(Aertsetal)entails(asweargue)apanpsychisttop-downapproachtotheproblemofconsciousness.Thesecondpaper(Blutneretal)proposesaquantumcognitivemodelforJung’spsychologicaltypestructure.Wediscusstheseconceptsandtheirrelationwithourmainthesis,thattimeisameasur

4、eofindividu-ality.Oneofourcentralmotivationsistoprovideargumentsthatallowsthemainstreamphysicisttotakeseriouslyapanpsychistworldview,apositionthathasbeenopenlyforwardedbymanymodernphilosophers.arXiv:1709.08093v1[physics.hist-ph]23Sep2017∗Electronicaddress:lobo@iceb.ufop.br1Cont

5、entsI.TimeinQuantumTheoryasaMeasureofIndividuality2II.TimeandConsciousness:Thetrue”astonishinghypothesis”5III.TheEmergenceofTime12A.ThePartialTraceandtheEmergenceofTemperature12B.Aharonov’sTwo-StateFormalism13IV.QuantumCognition14V.ClosingRemarksandFutureProspects18VI.Acknowled

6、gments20VII.Appendix20References21I.TIMEINQUANTUMTHEORYASAMEASUREOFINDIVIDUALITYAccordingtoKant,spaceandtimeareapriorinon-empiricalrepresentationsandassuch,theyunderlieallhumanmentalconstructionsinordertoorganizeandapprehendthesensorialdataofphysicalreality[1].Onecouldmaketheca

7、sethatEinstein’srelativitytheoryunderminedthisnotion.Weknowsincetheearlytwentiethcenturythattheinnerworkingsofspaceandtimecandifferradicallyfromthestructurethatournaiveintuitionleadsusto.TheMinkowskistructureofspacetimewasfarfromobviousandwasdiscoveredbystudyingcarefullythediscr

8、epancybetweenthestructureofelectromagnetism(spawnedbya