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Complementarity and Bistable Perception Thomas Filk Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology, Freiburg Parmenides Foundation for the Study of Thinking, Munich, Department of Physics, University of Freiburg Monte Verità – May, 23rd 2007 Can we apply ideas and part of the mathematical formalism of (quantum) physics to describe phenomena of consciousness? Can we apply ideas and part of the mathematical formalism of (quantum) physics to describe phenomena of consciousness? Not: consciousness as an immediate quantum phenomenon Content Bistable Perception Weak Quantum Theory The Necker-Zeno Model for Bistable Perception Tests for Non-classicality Bistable Perception Bistable perception - cup or faces Bistable perception – mother or daughter The Necker cube The mental states Rates of perceptive shifts Weak Quantum Theory “Observation” An observation not only changes the state of the observing system but also the state of the observed system. It is an interaction between these two systems. The algebraic formalism of quantum mechanics grew out of the necessity that observations may have an influence on the observed system. “Observation” No discussion of the role of consciousness the relevance of the partition the pointer basis problem the problem of state reduction Observables and States Measurable quantity (measuring recipe): A detailed prescription for the performance of an experiment yielding a definite result. Observable: A mathematical object ?representing“ a measurable quantity. State: A functional (mapping) which associates to each observable a number (expectation value). Mathematical formalization of classical and quantum mechanics Observables: Commutative C*-Algebra Distributive proposition calculus Boolean lattice States: positive, linear functionals on the set of observables (expectation values) Observables: Non-commutative C*-Algebra Non-distributive proposition calculus Non-boolean lattice States: positive, linear functionals on the set of observables (ex