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Stairway to the Mind : the Controversial New Science of Consciousness /

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Stairway to the Mind explores one of the most exciting and controversial areas of modern science: consciousness and the nature of the mind. The book proposes that consciousness emerges from hierarchical layers of mental reality, in the same way that life emerges from layers of biological reality. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Alwyn
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1995.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Neurosciences.
Physiology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Quantum Physics, Chemistry, and Consciousness
  • The Chemistry of Life
  • The Nerve Afire
  • Is There a Computer In Your Head?- "An Enchanted Loom"
  • A Century of Brain-Mind Theory
  • "A Great Arc" of Possibilities
  • Toward an Emergent Theory of Consciousness
  • "Then I Tell Them What I Told Them"
  • Appendices
  • Index. The complete table of contents can be found on the Internet: http://www.springer.de.