The Place of Consciousness in Modern Physics

Abstract

The author (Ph. D.) is a Nobel prize winner and one of the leading physicists of our times. The Wigner expansion in quantum perturbation theory was a fundamental contribution, as was Dr. Wigner’s work in the relation of group theory to quantum physics. In this connection his studies in fundamental symmetries in nature bring the pioneering work of Herman Weyl to new frontiers. This chapter, compiled from his papers, collects in one place his important thinking on consciousness.