My double unveiled : the dissipative quantum model of brain / Giuseppe Vitiello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vitiello, Giuseppe.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 32.

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Mathematical models.

Brain.

Quantum theory.

Consciousness--Mathematical models.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001.

Summary:

This introduction to the dissipative quantum model of brain and to its possible implications for consciousness studies is addressed to a broad interdisciplinary audience. Memory and consciousness are approached from the physicist point of view focusing on the basic observation that the brain is an open system continuously interacting with its environment. The unavoidable dissipative character of the brain functioning turns out to be the root of the brain's large memory capacity and of other memory features such as memory association, memory confusion, duration of memory. The openness of the brain implies a formal picture of the world which is modeled on the same brain image: a sort of brain copy or "Double", where world objectiveness and the brain implicit subjectivity are conjugated. Consciousness is seen to arise from the permanent "dialogue" of the brain with its Double. The author's narration of his (re-)search gives a cross-over of the physics of elementary particles and condensed matter, and the brain's basic dynamics. This dynamic interplay makes for a "satisfying feeling of the unity of knowledge". (Series A).

Contents:

My Double Unveiled

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Structure and function

Chapter 2: Macroscopic variables and microscopic dynamics

Chapter 3: The livingphase of matter

Chapter 4: The quantum model of brain

Chapter 5: Quantum brain dynamics

Chapter 6: Dissipation and memory

Chapter 7: Dissipation and consciousness

References

Index

The series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-158) and index.

ISBN:

9786612162657

9781282162655

1282162659

9789027298386

9027298386

OCLC:

70753412