Bohmian Philosophy of Mind?

Abstract

It has been suggested by some proponents of Bohm’s theory that it requires a special account of mental awareness--that the Bohmian solution to the measurement problem rests on direct awareness of the particle configuration in one's own brain. This suggestion leads to two criticisms of Bohm’s theory: first, that direct awareness of particle configuration is a highly implausible account of the mental; and second, that such direct awareness leads to violations of the quantum no-signalling theorem. I argue that Bohm’s theory requires no special account of mental awareness, and hence that neither of these problems arises.