The Problem ALL Quantum Consciousness Theories Have
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Dr. Kelvin McQueen, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University, examines the leading quantum-consciousness theories and the unresolved questions that still hinder them all: what exactly is collapse, and what counts as a measurement?
Building on his work with David Chalmers, McQueen argues that the neuroscience of Integrated Information Theory (IIT), with it’s definition of consciousness as intrinsic causal integration (quantified by Φ), offers a novel way forward.
Relevant papers and links:
“Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function”, David J. Chalmers, Kelvin J. McQueen: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02314
“Agency cannot be a purely quantum phenomenon”, Emily C. Adlam, Kelvin J. McQueen, Mordecai Waegell: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13247
“Testing the Conjecture That Quantum Processes Create Conscious Experience”, Hartmut Neven, Adam Zalcman,, Peter Read, Kenneth S Kosik, Tjitse van der Molen, Dirk Bouwmeester, Eve Bodnia, Luca Turin, Christof Koch : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38920...
Understanding Integrated Information Theory: https://www.iit.wiki/
https://kelvinmcqueen.com/
https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/k...
Topics discussed:
00:00 Introduction
03:02 What’s the relationship between quantum mechanics and consciousness?
05:31 Von Neumann and Wigner’s early ideas
06:59 The human observer as a measurement device
08:20 What is measurement and what is collapse?
09:25 The von Neumann chain and Wigner’s extension
10:35 The Wigner’s Friend paradox
12:54 How Many Worlds resolves the measurement problem
15:28 How many physicists favor the Many-Worlds interpretation?
17:25 Can the Many-Worlds view be tested?
18:14 A critique of the Everettian view
21:16 Is the Many-Worlds view static?
23:42 Wigner’s final view on consciousness
25:12 Consciousness says “no” to superposition
26:38 Integrated Information Theory (IIT) explained
31:33 Understanding Φ and its relation to qualia
33:32 Can qualia be in superposition?
36:15 How McQueen’s ideas relate to Roger Penrose
38:44 Links between Penrose and Wigner
39:58 The tricky part of Penrose’s idea
42:37 Compatibility between Penrose and IIT
44:26 Quantum Integrated Information
48:34 Superposition formation as the moment of consciousness
51:47 The “basis problem”
54:57 How superposition might form in the brain
57:45 Testing quantum consciousness with isotopes
59:15 Federico Faggin’s theory of consciousness
01:01:59 The no-cloning theorem
01:04:45 McQueen’s challenge to Faggin
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