You may have noted the increasing overlap between physics,
mathematics, philosophy and neuroscience. Many people are still
primarily focussed on quantum and gravitational matters which may be
less relevant to some aspects of fundamental physics than experimental
philosophy and logic. Bayesian reasoning is also becoming more and
more the norm.
I have tried to update matters as far as possible in a paper available
at Yates J., (2008)."Category theory applied to a radically new but
logically essential description of time and space", Philica.com,
Article number 135, and in PDF format in the Cogprints archive at
http://cogprints.org/6176/ and finally also in my blog at
http://ttjohn.blogspot.com/ . I would be happy also to download a copy
of this paper to the group. on request.
Later work will be likely to include experiments on the reverse
Stickgold effect and the potential use of Global Workspace Theory in
the MBI and such work effectively follows up my original UK patent now
allowed to expire and publically available.
Very briefly my present theory allows most of quantum theory and
gravity but introduces The Many Bubble Interpretation, which derives
from McTaggart's ideas, and various examples of its use and
effectiveness are referred to. The Schrodinger Cat paradox is
essentially resolved in principle, the quantum Zeno effect
interpretable, Kwiat's recent result referred to, and the newly
discovered reverse Stickgold effect described. The reverse Stickgold
effect may require the results of experimental philosophy to further
it. Despite the name, the MBI ("Many bubble Interpretation") is
mostly good in neutral monism, despite having derived to some extent
partly originated from the work of Kohler and Wertheimer.
Freewill is certainly an important topic nowadays as fMRI results have
sometimes been said to suggest that freewill does not exist. Haynes'
work perhaps suggests that mental decisions may be made much earlier
they are knowingly decided. Haynes does go a lot further than Libet's
work and my experiments and theory will give us some answers finally.
uv
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Received on Mon Sep 08 2008 - 19:58:38 PDT