Institute for the Study of Conscious Systems (ISOCOSM)
Dedicated to the exploration of the potential contribution of quantum mechanics to our understanding of conscious systems
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Interdisciplinary Methodology in the Study of Conscious Systems
In http://larrygoldberg.org/reprints/cmplclim.pdf (see especially §3.4), I developed an interdisciplinary methodology for the study of complex systems, assuming that different disciplines study different levels or subsystems of the system with strong mutual interactions. As I've shown in the Systems section of this site, virtual particles, wavefunctions, and consciousness are phenomena that don't lend them selves to a straight-forward analysis as levels of organization or analysis, even if strong interactions between levels are allowed. One of the research goals of ISOCOSM is to integrate the systems analysis it hopes to develop for quantum mechanically enabled conscious systems with a model of the structure of interdisciplinary theory and model development, explanation, and confirmation in the study of such systems.