How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? Top-Down Causation in the Human Context /

Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as living beings, and in particu...

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Main Author: Ellis, George. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:The Frontiers Collection,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49809-5
Table of Contents:
  • Complexity and Emergence
  • Digital Computer Systems
  • The Basis of Complexity
  • Different Kinds of Top-Down Effects
  • Room at the Bottom?
  • The Foundations: Physics and Top-Down Causation
  • The Mind and the Brain
  • The Broader View.