| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Advances in consciousness research,
1381-589X ;
v. 3
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Advances in consciousness research ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. A Tutorial in Quantum Physics. Ch. 1. Quanta and Fields. Ch. 2. Quantum Mechanics. Ch. 3. Quantum Field Theory -- pt. 2. Theories of Brain Functioning. Ch. 4. Classical Theory of the Brain. Ch. 5. Physiological Theory of the Brain. Ch. 6. Dynamical Theory of the Brain -- pt. 3. A Quantum Approach to Brain Functioning, Consciousness and Life. Ch. 7. Quantum Theory of the Brain. Ch. 8. Quantum Brain Dynamics. Ch. 9. Quantum Theory of Consciousness -- Appendix A: Umezawa's Vision: A Modern World View of Quantum Field Theory. |
| Summary |
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. |
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This change of perspective results in a radically new vision of how the brain functions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Consciousness.
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Consciousness. |
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Quantum theory.
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Quantum theory. |
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Quantum field theory.
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Quantum field theory. |
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Brain -- physiology. |
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Quantum Theory. |
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Consciousness -- physiology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Yasue, Kunio.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jibu, Mari. Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1995 1556191839 (DLC) 95035756 (OCoLC)33007565 |
| ISBN |
1556191839 (electronic book) |
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9781556191831 (electronic book) |
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9027251231 (electronic book) |
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9789027251237 (electronic book) |
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9789027284921 (electronic book) |
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902728492X (electronic book) |
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