Philip Van Loocke

List of John Benjamins publications in which Philip Van Loocke is involved.

Title

The Physical Nature of Consciousness

Edited by Philip Van Loocke

The Physical Nature of Consciousness contains twelve chapters that discuss recent and new perspectives on the relation between modern physics and consciousness. Stuart Hameroff opens with an extended and updated exposition of the Penrose/Hameroff Orch-OR model, and subsequently addresses recent… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 29] 2001. viii, 319 pp.

Article

Van Loocke, Philip 2001 The philosophy of consciousness, ‘deep’ teleology and objective selection The Physical Nature of Consciousness, Van Loocke, Philip (ed.), pp. 293–311 | Article

We consider systems in which forces and selection (or ‘reduction’) procedures cooperate to determine present states. Forces work on the immediate past of a system and determine a set of possible states. Selection works in the immediate future and selects one of these states as the actual state of… read more