Questions about the underlying nature of reality, time, and human
consciousness hold a natural fascination for most of us. In this book,
Pylkkänen uses concepts such as "implicate order," "active information,"
and "soma-significance" as tools to tackle well-known problems in the
philosophy of mind such as mental causation, the hard problem of
consciousness, time consciousness, and virtual reality. Pylkkänen's
eclectic approach combines new physics-based insights with those of
analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience
and proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical
physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying
framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally.