TY - JOUR AU - Dace, Ted PY - 2020/10/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Information and Explication: From Wave Function to Conscious Thought JF - Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy JA - Cosmos and History VL - 16 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/874 SP - 118-141 AB - <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: ">An atom is characterized mathematically as an evolving superposition of possible values of properties and experimentally as an instantaneous phenomenon with a precise value of a measured property. Likewise, an organism is to itself a flux of experience and to an observer a tangible body in a distinct moment. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: ">Whereas the implicit atom is the stream of computation represented by the smoothly propagating wave function, the implicit organism is both the species from which the body individuates and the personal mind its behavior explicates. As with the wave computation that underlies the atom, the substance of the implicit organism is not matter but information. And like projection from a superposition of potential values to a single outcome in a precise and fleeting moment, the organism actualizes only one of the many possible behaviors calculated in the ongoing presence we know as consciousness. </span></p> ER -