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Title Brain and Being. At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts
Published John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004

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Contents Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Note -- 1. Doubling the image to face the obscenity of photography -- picture -- The image and the origin of its doubles -- picture -- The photographic obscenity -- Notes -- References -- ''Photobjet'' -- ''The un-possible image'' -- 2. The self-transcendence of consciousness towards its models -- Note -- References -- 3. The unthinkable -- 1. An outline of nonclassical theory -- 2. Kant, Freud, and the nonclassical epistemology of the mind -- 3. Quantum theory as nonclassical theory -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Mental presence and the temporal present -- How does it feel to be a brain? -- From the dualism of views to the difference in ontology -- Quantum memory -- Actualization and temporality -- The passage of time and the mirror image in time -- The 'paradox' of temporal change -- Ontological complementarity -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5. The psycho-emotional-physical unity of living organisms as an outcome of quantum physics -- Introduction -- 1. The revolutions in the physics of the 20th century -- 2. Coherence in condensed and living matter -- 3. The interaction through the phase: Emotions and perception of the emotions; the dual system -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 6. Dual mode ontology and its application to the Riemann Hypothesis* -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Dual mode Quantum Brain Dynamics (QBD) -- Alter universe as default -- Between-two -- Creation and annihilation dynamics -- Dual mode and unimode memory traces -- Time -- Assignment of the subject -- Control of the conjugate match and the result -- Review -- 2. Consciousness, subjectivity and the alter universe -- Quantum physics and consciousness -- Unpacking consciousness -- Parallel world-thrownness -- Mode and the subject -- ''I'' -- 3. Quotidian and monadological ontologies -- 4. Application to the Riemann Hypothesis -- Introduction -- Riemann's Hypothesis -- Afterword -- Note -- References -- 7. Quantum monadology and consciousness -- 1. The aim of quantum monadology -- 2. NL world -- 3. Quantum monadology -- 4. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Quantum connectionism and the emergence of cognition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The connectionist approach and ANN models -- 3. What is emergence? -- 4. Why quantum theory? -- 5. Quantum neurons -- 6. Quantum neural networks -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- 9. The rheomode of language of David Bohm as a way to re-construct the access to physical reality -- 1. The rheomode of language -- the basic idea -- 2. The way of the rheomode of language -- 3. A structural and functional characterization of the first tetrad of rheoverbs -- 4. The 'direct referents' of the first tetrad of rheoverbs or what makes the rheomode of language so difficult to appreciate -- 4.1. Attention -- 4.2. 'Intelligent' perception -- 4.3. Blocking natural-language-specific recursion -- 4.4. Thinking vs. intelligence -- 5. Conclusion: The challenge of the rheomode of language -- Notes -- References -- 10. Can quantum analogies help us to understand the process of thought? -- 1. Introduc
Summary This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to "think together" in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain
Subject Consciousness.
Quantum field theory.
Brain.
Neuropsychology.
Consciousness
Brain
brains.
Brain
Consciousness
Neuropsychology
Quantum field theory
Form Electronic book
Author Globus, Gordon G.
Pribram, Karl H.
Vitiello, Giuseppe.
ISBN 9027295360
9789027295361
1282254847
9781282254848