Keywords
Duality mind-body
Objective Reduction
fundamental processes
line of complexity
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Abstract
In this paper, the author introduces the reader to Roger Penrose's program against the dualism mind-world and discusses the most important philosophical consequences of Penrose's program. The subject of the analysis is the constitution of a theory of consciousness within the contemporary scientific and philosophical view of the world in the precise sense according to which the physical world is the shadow of the mind. Penrose names this new theory Objective Reduction (OR) and its aim is to show that the brain is sometimes governed by classical processes and some other times by quantum processes. After the characterization of consciousness by its ability to intuit truth from falsity, this paper puts the subject of discussion in the frame of a theory of fundamental processes or also in the line of complexity.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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