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  title info:
    title: Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics
  name:
    name part: Stapp, Henry P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 301 p. online resource.
  abstract: "Scientists other than quantum physicists often fail to comprehend the enormity of the conceptual change wrought by quantum theory in our basic conception of the nature of matter," writes Henry Stapp. Stapp is a leading quantum physicist who has given particularly careful thought to the implications of the theory that lies at the heart of modern physics. In this book, which contains several of his key papers as well as new material, he focuses on the problem of consciousness and explains how quantum mechanics allows causally effective conscious thought to be combined in a natural way with the physical brain made of neurons and atoms. The book is divided into four sections. The first consists of an extended introduction. Key foundational and somewhat more technical papers are included in the second part, together with a clear exposition of the "orthodox" interpretation of quantum mechanics. The third part addresses, in a non-technical fashion, the implications of the theory for some of the most profound questions that mankind has contemplated: How does the world come to be just what it is and not something else? How should humans view themselves in a quantum universe? What will be the impact on society of the revised scientific image of the nature of man? The final part contains a mathematical appendix for the specialist and a glossary of important terms and ideas for the interested layman. This third edition has been significantly expanded with two new chapters covering the author's most recent work.
  table of contents: …and then a Miracle Occurs -- A Quantum Theory of Consciousness -- Theory -- The Copenhagen Interpretation -- Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics -- A Quantum Theory of the Mind–Brain Interface -- Implications -- Mind, Matter, and Pauli -- Choice and Meaning in the Quantum Universe -- Future Achievements to Be Gained through Science -- A Quantum Conception of Man -- Quantum Theory and the Place of Mind in Nature -- New Developments and Future Visions -- Neuroscience, Atomic Physics, and the Human Person -- Societal Ramifications of the New Scientific Conception of Human Beings -- Physicalism Versus Quantum Mechanics -- A Model of the Quantum–Classical and Mind–Brain Connections, and the Role of the Quantum Zeno Effect in the Physical Implementation of Conscious Intent -- Appendices -- A Mathematical Mode.
  note: edited by Henry P. Stapp.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Elementary particles (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  classification: QC793-793.5
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 539.72
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783540896548
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89654-8
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204163004.0
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