Planck, consciousness and quantum theory | Patricia Churchland, Brian Greene, Amanda Gefter & more
294Patricia Churchland, Brian Greene, Laura Mersini-Houghton and Amanda Gefter discuss whether Max Planck was right in asserting that "matter is derivative from consciousness."
00:00 Introduction
03:16 Patricia Churchland - Neuroscience
05:12 Amanda Gefter - Quantum Mechanics
09:39 Laura Mersini-Houghton - The brain as quantum capacitor
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Most of us, scientists included, see physics as an attempt to provide an objective description of the world independent of human subjectivity and consciousness. Yet, Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, stated as a result of his investigations and experiments: “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”
Should we listen to Planck? Can we plausibly see matter as derivative of consciousness? Or does this outlook, as Einstein argued, undermine the very success and objectivity of science and take us back to a world of superstition?
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Cosmologist, theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton, groundbreaking physicist Brian Greene, esteemed physics and philosophy writer Amanda Gefter and eliminative materialism pioneer Patricia Churchland debate Planck and the Consciousness Puzzle. Catherine Heymans hosts.
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