Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse: Physics, Philosophy, and Quantum Decision Making (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030035822)

Introduction: Developing a Multiverse View of Decision Making and Consciousness.- PART I: Setting the Stage for the Clustered-Minds Multiverse.- Why the Multiverse is the Most Parsimonious Way of Interpreting Quantum Mechanics.- Interdisciplinary Evidence for the Multiverse Including a Detailed Analysis of What Time Is.- How Different Versions of the Multiverse Interpretation Have Different Consequences for Free Will and Ontology: Developing the Concept of a Clustered-Minds Multiverse.- Part II: Answers Suggested by the Clustered-Minds Multiverse for Selected Questions in Philosophy.- Dualistic Idealism: No Supervenience of Consciousness on the Physical.- A Special Form of Free Will: Parallel Watching of Different 'Movies' but with Different Levels of Awareness.- Are we responsible for Our Decisions?.- PART III: Quantum Decision Making in the Multiverse as Vectorial Choice: Towards a Transformation of the Decisions Sciences.- General Framework, Objective Function and Probability.- Different Concepts of Utility.- Games and Markets.- PART IV: Consequences For Selected Psychological Phenomena and Experimental Research in the Social Sciences.- Repetition Compulsion and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies.- A Generalized Rosenthal Effect in Experimental Research in the Social Sciences.- Selected Consequences of the Clustered-Minds Multiverse for Weltanschauung and Scientific Research.