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Stairway to the mind : the controversial new science of consciousness / Alwyn Scott.
Author
Scott, Alwyn, 1931-
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English
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New York : Copernicus, [1995], ©1995.
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xix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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QP411 .S46 1995
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Consciousness
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Neurosciences
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Philosophy
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Mind-brain identity theory
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Quantum Physics, Chemistry, and Consciousness
3. The Chemistry of Life
4. The Nerve Afire
5. Is There a Computer In Your Head?
6. "An Enchanted Loom"
7. A Century of Brain-Mind Theory
8. "A Great Arc" of Possibilities
9. Toward an Emergent Theory of Consciousness
10. "Then I Tell Them What I Told Them"
App. A Nonlinearity and Emergence
App. B The Mathematics of Quantum Theory
App. C The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
App. D Local Modes
App. E Schrodinger's Cat
App. F Linear and Nonlinear Diffusion
App. G The Hodgkin-Huxley Equations
App. H Counting Neural Networks
App. I An Incomplete Physical Theory.
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ISBN
0387943811 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
95005932
OCLC
32087411
RCP
C - S
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