Agency and the theory of quantum vacuum interactionFootnote¹

I am grateful to Karl Pribram for his helpful comments and for allowing me to draw on our collaborative work (Bradley and Pribram, 1995, 1996; 1997a,b; Bradley, 1996), and I thank Michele Hardoin for her suggestions also. An earlier version was published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics (K. H. Pribram (Ed.), Brain and Values, copyright© 1998, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ), under the title “Values, Agency, and the Theory of Quantum Vacuum Interaction,” pp. 471–503. Its publication here is within the terms of the original copyright agreement with Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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