Mindful universe: quantum mechanics and the participating observer

Science and Human Values.- Human Knowledge as the Foundation Science.- Actions, Knowledge, and Information.- Nerve Terminals and the Need to Use Quantum Theory.- Templates for Action.- The Physical Effectiveness of Conscious Will.- Support from Contemporary Psychology.- Application to Neuropsychology.- Roger Penrose's Theory and Quantum Decoherence.- Faster-Than-Light Connections.- Whiteheadian Quantum Ontology.- An Interview.- Consciousness and the Anthropic Questions.- Impact of Quantum Mechanics on Human Values.- Conclusions.- Appendices.- Non-orthodox Versions of Quantum Theory and the Need for von Neumann's Process.- The Basis Problem in Many- Worlds Theories.- Despised Dualism.- Recent Views in Neuroscience and Philosophy.- Gazzaniga's "The Ethical Brain".- Von Neumann: Knowledge, Information, and Entropy.- Wigner's Friend and Consciousness in Quantum Physics.- Orthodox Interpretation and the Mind-Brain Connection.- Einstein Locality and Spooky Action at a Distance.- Locality in Physics.- Nonlocality in Quantum Physics.