Mind matter and the implicate order Pylkkänen uses concepts such as implicate order active information and soma significance as tools to tackle well known problems in the philosophy of mind such as mental causation the hard problem of consciousness time consciousness and virtual reality. Pylkkänens eclectic approach combines new physics based insights with those of analytical philosophy phenomenology cognitive science and neuroscience and proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally. TOC:The Problem of Consciousness and Our Prosepcts of Solving It. Bohmian Tools. The Mind Body Problem and Mental Causation. The Hard Problem of Consciousness. Time Consciousness. Is Consciousness Like a Virtual Reality