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245 1 4 _aThe Emerging Physics of Consciousness
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Jack A. Tuszynski.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg,
_c2006.
300 _aXVI, 487 p. 140 illus., 5 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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_2rda
490 1 _aThe Frontiers Collection,
_x1612-3018
505 0 _aThe Path Ahead -- Consciousness and Quantum Physics: Empirical Research on the Subjective Reduction of the Statevector -- Microtubules in the Cerebral Cortex: Role in Memory and Consciousness -- Towards Experimental Tests of Quantum Effects in Cytoskeletal Proteins -- Physicalism, Chaos and Reductionism -- Consciousness, Neurobiology and Quantum Mechanics: The Case for a Connection -- Life, Catalysis and Excitable Media: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Metabolism and Cognition -- The Dendritic Cytoskeleton as a Computational Device: An Hypothesis -- Recurrent Quantum Neural Network and its Applications -- Microtubules as a Quantum Hopfield Network -- Consciousness and Quantum Brain Dynamics -- The CEMI Field Theory: Seven Clues to the Nature of Consciousness -- Quantum Cosmology and the Hard Problem of the Conscious Brain -- Consciousness and Logic in a Quantum-Computing Universe.
520 _aConsciousness remains one of the major unsolved problems in science. How do the feelings and sensations making up conscious experience arise from the concerted actions of nerve cells and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? Can such feelings be explained by modern science, or is there an entirely different kind of explanation needed? And how can this seemingly intractable problem be approached experimentally? How do the operations of the conscious mind emerge out of the specific interactions involving billions of neurons? This book seeks answers to these questions on the underlying assumption that consciousness can be understood using the intellectual potential of modern physics and other sciences. There are a number of theories of consciousness, some based on classical physics while others require the use of quantum concepts. The latter ones have drawn criticism from the parts of the scientific establishment while simultaneously claiming that classical approaches are doomed to failure. The contributing authors present a spectrum of opinions from both sides of this on-going scientific debate, allowing readers to decide for themselves which of the approaches are most likely to succeed.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 0 _aNeurosciences.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
650 0 _aNeurobiology.
650 0 _aQuantum physics.
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aQuantum Physics.
650 2 4 _aNeurosciences.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy, general.
650 2 4 _aNeurobiology.
650 2 4 _aPhysics, general.
700 1 _aTuszynski, Jack A.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783540238904
830 0 _aThe Frontiers Collection,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36723-3
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950 _aPhysics and Astronomy (Springer-11651)
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