David (Judge of the Supreme Court, New South Wales, Judge of the Supreme Court, New South Wales) Hodgson
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David (Judge of the Supreme Court, New South Wales, Judge of the Supreme Court, New South Wales) Hodgson,
e druk, 1993
9780198240686
The Mind Matters
Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World
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Paperback, 496 blz.
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Engels
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1993
ISBN13: 9780198240686
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Clarendon Paperbacks
Levertijd ongeveer 11 werkdagen
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In this book David Hodgson presents a clear and compelling case against today's orthodox mechanistic view of the brain and mind, and in favour of the view that `the mind matters'. Although written from a philosophical viewpoint, the book has important implications for the sciences concerned with the brain and mind problem. At the same time, it is largely non-technical, and thus accessible to the non-specialist reader.
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Introduction; Part I. Preliminaries: General approach and assumptions; Mental events; The consensus; Part II. Against Mechanism: More and different information; Plausible reasoning; Consciousness selected by evolution; Folk psychology; Transcending the code; Part III. Quantum Mechanics: Historical outline; Some mechanics and mathematics; The quantum mechanical state; The development of the quantum state; Combined systems; The measurement problem; Quantum theory and reality; Part IV. Mind and the world: Outline of a theory of mind; The self; Time; Sketches for a world-view; References; Author index; Subject index.