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Kobi Kremnizer: Theories of consciousness, the closure of the physical, and quantum collapse

Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminars, Hilary term 2023 26 January - Kobi Kremnizer (University of Oxford) Title: Scientific theories of consciousness, the closure of the (current) physical, and quantum collapse Abstract: In recent years several theories of consciousness have been proposed such as Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory. In this talk I will ask what a scientific theory of consciousness would look like. I will claim that such a theory would need to say what consciousness does and not only what consciousness is. I will explain that in case consciousness has an effect on the quantum evolution (so the current physical is not closed) then to first order this implies a quantum collapse model. I will then discuss how such collapse models could be related to consciousness and the kind of predictions such models will have. This is joint work with Johaness Kleiner.