THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

April 25-30, 2016 - Tucson, ARIZONA   

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort

  

 

PLENARY

FRIDAY

April 29, 2016

8:30 am to 10:40 am

PL 7 - Quantum Approaches 1

 

Kelvin McQueen

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv

 

Kelvin McQueen is a post doctoral research fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He obtained his PhD in philosophy from the Australian National University. His thesis, supervised by David Chalmers, focused on the nature of reductive explanation. His current research primarily concerns the quantum measurement problem and he is currently exploring several alternative solutions including the consciousness causes collapse hypothesis, the two-state vector formalism, and the many worlds interpretation.