Physics in mind a quantum view of the brain

Summary: No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are?aware" of something? What is this peculiar state in our heads, at once utterly familiar and bewilderingly mysterious, that we call awareness or consciousness?In Physics in Mind, eminent biophysicist Werner R. Loewenstein argues that to answer these questions, we must first understand the physical mechanisms that underlie the workings of the mind. And so begins an exhilarating jo.

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ISBN: 0465033970 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780465033973 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Mathematics and Forecognition.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Do Plants Have Digital Demons, Too?11. The Second Information Arrow and Its Astonishing Denouement: Consciousness; The Structure of Time; The Evolutionary Niche in the Structure of Time: A Hypothesis; Forecognition; 12. How to Represent the World; The Universal Turing Machine; Rendering the World by Computer; The Neuronal Virtual-Reality Generator; Our Biased World Picture; Computing by Neurons; Correcting Our World Picture; Flying the Coop of Our Senses; 13. Expanded Reality; A Fine Bouquet; Mathematics and Reality; The Neuron Circuitry of Language; The Feathers of the Brain.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.