Research Catalog

Title

Stairway to the mind : the controversial new science of consciousness / Alwyn Scott.

Author

Scott, Alwyn, 1931-

Publication

New York : Copernicus, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Description

xix, 229 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Science > Philosophy
• Mind-brain identity theory
• Consciousness
• Neurosciences

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

ISBN

0387943811 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

95005932

OCLC

• 32087411
• ocm32087411

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries