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"Quantum Closures and Disclosures" thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Underlying both developments is a new ontology of nonCartesian dual modes whose rich provenance is their "between." World is disclosed in the lumen naturale of dual modes belonging-together in their between; all presencing is a function of a "conjugate" form of match in the between. This surprising rapprochement between a powerful tradition within continental philosophy and the 20th-century quantum revolution in science is fruitfully applied to crucial issues in philosophy, brain science, mathematics and psychiatry.
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Quantum Closures and Disclosures Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Series C: Research profiles. Presentations of significant personal and team contributions to the empirical study of consciousness. Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Editorial Board David Chalmers Earl Mac Cormac University of Arizona Duke University Gordon G. Globus George Mandler University of California at Irvine University of California at San Diego Ray Jackendoff John R. Searle Brandeis University University of California at Berkeley Christof Koch Petra Stoerig California Institute of Technology Universität Düsseldorf Stephen Kosslyn † Francisco Varela Harvard University C.R.E.A., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Volume 50 Quantum Closures and Disclosures: Thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics by Gordon G. Globus Quantum Closures and Disclosures Thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics Gordon G. Globus Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Philosophy University of California at Irvine John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Globus, Gordon G., 1934Quantum closures and disclosures : thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics / Gordon G. Globus. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 50) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Philosophy of mind. 2. Quantum field theory. 3. Neuropsychology-Philosophy. 4. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 5. Derrida, Jaques. I. Title. II. Series. BD418.3 G56 2003 128’.2-dc21 isbn 90 272 5179 7 (Eur.) / 1 58811 370 1 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) isbn 90 272 5180 0 (Eur.) / 1 58811 371 X (US) (Pb; alk. paper) 2003040318 © 2003 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John