Holism | Cosmopsychism – And the Collapse of the Wavefunction
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Denis Bobanovic
Abstract
The holistic view of the Universe is a very promising approach. The necessity of such a view is shown by the teaching of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a German physicist and philosopher. If we accept Panpsychism as the best alternative to Materialism and Dualism, we should take the holistic view seriously. Panpsychism and Holism combined lead to the Idea of Cosmopsychism. If we consider the Universe as a holistic Quantum System, we should ask, what causes the collapse of its wavefunction? I offer four possible answers and I tend to divine consciousness, which brings the collapse of the wavefunction of our Universe.
References
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Original Papers
- Modal Realism and the Possibility of Island Universes: Why There are no Possible Worlds
- Counterpart Theories: The Argument from Concern
- A Functional Approach to Ontology
- On the Nature of Persons; Persons as Constituted Events
- Modest Dualism and Individuation of Mind
- Proving God without Dualism: Improving the Swinburne-Moreland Argument from Consciousness
- Holism | Cosmopsychism – And the Collapse of the Wavefunction
- Laws, Dispositions, Memory: Three Hypotheses on the Order of the World
- Response to Book Review
- Self-Relating Internalism: Reply to Vallicella
