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  title info:
    title: Mindful Universe
    sub title: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer
  name:
    name part: Stapp, Henry P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 212 p. online resource.
  abstract: The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our conscious experiences entering only passively. During the twentieth century the classical concepts were found to be inadequate. In the new theory, quantum mechanics, our conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by the physically described aspects alone. Consequences of this radical change in our understanding of the connection between mind and brain are described. This second edition contains two new chapters investigating the role of quantum phenomena in the problem of free will and in the placebo effect.
  table of contents: Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second edition -- Science Consciousness and Human Values -- Human Knowledge as the Foundation Science -- Actions, Knowledge, and Information -- Nerve Terminals and the Need to Use Quantum Theory -- Templates for Action -- The Physical Effectiveness of Conscious Will and the Quantum Zeno Effect -- Support from Contemporary Psychology -- Application to Neuropsychology -- Roger Penrose’s Theory and Quantum Decoherence -- Non-Orthodox Versions of Quantum Theory -- The Basis Problem in Many-Worlds Theories -- Despised Dualism -- Whiteheadian Quantum Ontology -- Interview -- Consciousness and the Anthropic Questions -- Impact of Quantum Mechanics on Human Values -- Placebo: A Clinically Significant Quantum Effect -- Science-Based Discussion of Free Will -- A.Gazzaniga’s The Ethical Brain -- B.Von Neumann: Knowledge, Information, and Entropy -- C. Wigner’s Friend and Consdciousness in Quantum Theory -- D. Orthodox Interpretation and the Mind-Brain Connection -- E. Locality in Physics -- F. Einstein Locality and Spooky Action at a Distance -- G. Nonlocality in the Quantum World -- References -- Index.
  note: by Henry P. Stapp.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783642180767
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18076-7
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    record change date: 20151204182807.0
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