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Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness : an introduction /
This introduction to quantum brain dynamics is accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The authors, a brain scientist and a theoretical physicist, present a new quantum framework for investigating advanced functions of the brain such as consciousness and memory. The book is the first to gi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1995.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This introduction to quantum brain dynamics is accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The authors, a brain scientist and a theoretical physicist, present a new quantum framework for investigating advanced functions of the brain such as consciousness and memory. The book is the first to give a systematic account, founded in fundamental quantum physical principles, of how the brain functions as a unified system. It is based on the quantum field theory originated in the 1960s by the great theoretical physicist, Hiroomi Umezawa, to whom the book is dedicated. It poses an alternative to the dominant conceptions in the neuro- and cognitive sciences, which take neurons organized into networks as the basic constituents of the brain. Certain physical substrates in the brain are shown to support quantum field phenomena, and the resulting strange quantum properties are used to explain consciousness and memory. This change of perspective results in a radically new vision of how the brain functions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1556191839 9781556191831 9027251231 9789027251237 9789027284921 902728492X |
| ISSN: | 1381-589X ; |