Quantum Closures and Disclosures : Thinking-Together Postphenomenology and Quantum Brain Dynamics

"Quantum Closures and Disclosures" thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Underlying both developments is a new ontology of nonCartesian dual modes whose rich provenance is their "between." World is disclosed in the "lumen naturale" of dual modes belonging-together in their between; all presencing is a function of a " conjugate" form of match in the between. This surprising rapprochement between a powerful tradition within continental philosophy and the 20th-century quantum revolution in science is fruitfully applied to crucial issues in philosophy, brain science, mathematics and psychiatry.Related Titles: "Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An introduction," edited by Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue (1995), and "My Double Unveiled: The dissipative quantum model of the brain," by Giuseppe Vitiello (2001)