Kant, the two Stages of Visual Search, Quantum Mechanics and Antimatter

p. 274-289

Abstract

Kant's theory of consciousness is related to quantum mechanics by his proof that the Democritos' atom is both indivisible and divisible like a photon in the two slits experiment. This paradox has been solved by Schroedinger's equation. It also leads to the conclusion that there is a collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics. It follows from the existence of two stages, preattentional and attentional, is visual search that quantum mechanics applies also to visual perception, and the object integration is a collapse of the wave function. The integration of macroscopic objects involves the migration of features between objects. We are unaware of this due to an anticipatory selection mechanism of the perceived sensory input. This migration of features occurs also inside an atom, changing few atoms of matter into atoms of antimatter.

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Uri Fidelman, « Kant, the two Stages of Visual Search, Quantum Mechanics and Antimatter », CASYS, 13 | 2002, 274-289.

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Uri Fidelman, « Kant, the two Stages of Visual Search, Quantum Mechanics and Antimatter », CASYS [Online], 13 | 2002, Online since 14 October 2024, connection on 14 November 2024. URL : http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4527

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Uri Fidelman

Department of education in technology and science, and Department of humanities and arts ; Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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