1st Edition
Conscious Action Theory An Introduction to the Event-Oriented World View
Prologue
PART I - The event-oriented world view
1. Introduction to the event-oriented world view
2. Conscious operations in the 1st-person perspective
PART II - Modeling reality
3. How to build a conscious action model
4. The action model
5. The quantum and classic approximation
PART III - Implications and applications
6. Model of a conscious being
7. Applications in artificial intelligence and neuroscience
8. Philosophy, psychology and religion
9. Future development
APPENDICES
A3.1 - Definition of terms
A4.1 - Applicability of mathematical idealizations in physics
A4.2 - Action theory in isolated systems
A4.3 - Mach's Principle and gravito-inertial and electromagnetic equation analogy
A5.1 - Simple derivation of the wave equation
A5.2 - Action-flow diagrams in quantum nomenclature
References and Notes
Index
Biography
Wolfgang Baer received his PhD in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He held a research professor position at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Dr. Baer now directs research at Nascent Systems Inc. in cognitive systems development and macroscopic quantum effects leading toward theories integrating subjective and objective experiences.
