Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness : an introduction / Mari Jibu, Kunio Yasue.

By:

Jibu, Mari

Contributor(s):

Yasue, Kunio

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Advances in consciousness research ; v. 3.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1556191839
9781556191831
9027251231
9789027251237
9789027284921
902728492X

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness.DDC classification:

612.8/22 22

LOC classification:

QP411 .J53 1995eb

NLM classification:

WL 300 J57q 1995

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

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.Summary: This change of perspective results in a radically new vision of how the brain functions.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.

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.

This change of perspective results in a radically new vision of how the brain functions.

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