Brain and Being
At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts
1st Edition
Published on 17. September 2004
XII, 350 pages
978-90-272-9536-1 (ISBN)
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This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to "think together" in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have suffered conceptual estrangement but now are ripe for rapprochement, if academic parochialism is put aside. A prevalent theme of the book is a moving away from individual elements and individual actors acting upon each other, toward a coordinate hermeneutic dynamics that manifests as a coherent totality. Among the topics covered are image in photography and in neuroscience; language; time; brain and mathematics; quantum brain dynamics and quantum communication.
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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
