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Stairway to the mind : the controversial new science of consciousness
- 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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- Description
- xix, 229 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- 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