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

• Main Author: Ellis, George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Neurosciences.; Epistemology.; Evolutionary biology.; Neurobiology.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Evolutionary Biology.

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...

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.