Brain and Being

Name: Brain and Being | At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts
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At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts

Gordon G. Globus Karl H. Pribram Giuseppe Vitiello(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 17. September 2004

XII, 350 Seiten

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Brain and Being
Editorial page
Title page
LCC page
Table of contents
Foreword
Note
1. Doubling the image to face the obscenity of photography
picture
The image and the origin of its doubles
picture
The photographic obscenity
Notes
References
``Photobjet''
``The un-possible image''
2. The self-transcendence of consciousness towards its models
Note
References
3. The unthinkable
1. An outline of nonclassical theory
2. Kant, Freud, and the nonclassical epistemology of the mind
3. Quantum theory as nonclassical theory
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
4. Mental presence and the temporal present
How does it feel to be a brain?
From the dualism of views to the difference in ontology
Quantum memory
Actualization and temporality
The passage of time and the mirror image in time
The `paradox' of temporal change
Ontological complementarity
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
5. The psycho-emotional-physical unity of living organisms as an outcome of quantum physics
Introduction
1. The revolutions in the physics of the 20th century
2. Coherence in condensed and living matter
3. The interaction through the phase: Emotions and perception of the emotions
the dual system
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Note
References
6. Dual mode ontology and its application to the Riemann Hypothesis*
Foreword
Introduction
1. Dual mode Quantum Brain Dynamics (QBD)
Alter universe as default
Between-two
Creation and annihilation dynamics
Dual mode and unimode memory traces
Time
Assignment of the subject
Control of the conjugate match and the result
Review
2. Consciousness, subjectivity and the alter universe
Quantum physics and consciousness
Unpacking consciousness
Parallel world-thrownness
Mode and the subject
``I''
3. Quotidian and monadological ontologies
4. Application to the Riemann Hypothesis
Introduction
Riemann's Hypothesis
Afterword
Note
References
7. Quantum monadology and consciousness
1. The aim of quantum monadology
2. NL world
3. Quantum monadology
4. Discussion
Notes
References
8. Quantum connectionism and the emergence of cognition
1. Introduction
2. The connectionist approach and ANN models
3. What is emergence?
4. Why quantum theory?
5. Quantum neurons
6. Quantum neural networks
7. Conclusions
References
9. The rheomode of language of David Bohm as a way to re-construct the access to physical reality
1. The rheomode of language - the basic idea
2. The way of the rheomode of language
3. A structural and functional characterization of the first tetrad of rheoverbs
4. The `direct referents' of the first tetrad of rheoverbs or what makes the rheomode of language so difficult to appreciate
4.1. Attention
4.2. `Intelligent' perception
4.3. Blocking natural-language-specific recursion
4.4. Thinking vs. intelligence
5. Conclusion: The challenge of the rheomode of language
Notes
References
10. Can quantum analogies help us to understand the process of thought?
1. Introduction
2. Analogies between quantum processes and thought processes
2.1. An uncertainty principle for the process of thought
2.2. Holistic features of thought and quantum processes
2.3. The classical limit of quantum theory and the logical aspect of thought processes
3. Cognitive science and quantum analogies
4. Post-phenomenology and quantum analogies
5. Concluding reflections
Notes
References
11. Information, quantum theory and the brain
1. Introduction
2. The notion of information
3. Common mathematical symmetries
4. The Wigner-Moyal approach
5. Gabor information and the radar ambiguity function
6. The Bohm approach to quantum mechanics and information dynamics
7. A more detailed discussion of information and meaning
Acknowledgements
Note
References
12. Brain and mathematics
A personal road of discovery
Scale
Deep and surface processing scales
Quantum Brain Dynamics
Formalisms
The quantum formalism
The Fourier relationship
Of matter and mind
Acknowledgements
References
13. Searching for the biophysics of an elementary system
Towards the future
Notes
References
14. Brain and physics of many-body problems
1. Introduction
2. Some necessary requirements to be satisfied by a model of brain
3. Outline of the model
4. Concluding remarks
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
15. Quantum Brain Dynamics and Quantum Field Theory
1. Motivation
2. Why Quantum Field Theory?
3. A brief history of QBD
4. Fundamental and metabolizing systems of living matter
5. Physical picture of the fundamental system of living matter
6. What is Quantum Brain Dynamics?
7. Collective mode and Goldstone mode
8. Memory as vacuum state of the corticon system
9. Quantum decay process of memory
10. Outlook
References
16. Brain and Quantum Field Theory
1. Introduction
2. On the physical-biological discontinuity
2.1. Cooperative phenomena in quantum physics and biology
2.2. Biological union and partitioning
2.3. Choice of partitioning functions
3. Some assumptions about the brain
4. Purpose and theoretical meaning
5. Quantum Brain Dynamics - QBD
5.1. Degenerate ground states and memory
5.2. Nambu-Goldstone bosons and memory retrieval
6. Further problems
6.1. Refined QBD model
6.2. Analysis by change of variables
6.3. Nambu-Goldstone bosons and memory
6.4. Formulation as non-equilibrium states
7. Outlook
References
17. The dissipative brain
1. Introduction
2. Broken symmetry and order
3. The brain is a dissipative system
drawing
6. Doubts and mistakes. Toward the construction of an erratic device
Note
References
drawing
4. Entanglement, chaos and coherence
5. The trade with the Double: A route to consciousness?
Name index
Subject index
List of the contributors
The series Advances in Consciousness Research

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