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Author Scott, Alwyn, 1931-

Title Stairway to the mind : the controversial new science of consciousness / Alwyn Scott
Published New York : Copernicus, [1995]
©1995

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Description xix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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
Notes Includes index. Bibliography: p. 217
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 217) and index
Subject Consciousness.
Mind-brain identity theory.
Neurology.
Neurosciences.
Science -- Philosophy.
LC no. 95005932
ISBN 0387943811 (acid-free paper)
(acid-free paper)