Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics

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Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics
3rd Edition

Henry P. Stapp, "Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics (The Frontiers Collection)"
Springer | 2009-03-01 | ISBN: 3540896538 | 302 pages | PDF | 2 MB

"Scientists other than quantum physicists oftenfail to comprehend the enormity of the conceptual change wrought byquantum theory in our basic conception of the nature of matter," writesHenry Stapp. Stapp is a leading quantum physicist who has givenparticularly careful thought to the implications of the theory thatlies at the heart of modern physics. In this book, which containsseveral of his key papers as well as new material, he focuses on theproblem of consciousness and explains how quantum mechanics allowscausally effective conscious thought to be combined in a natural waywith the physical brain made of neurons and atoms. The book is dividedinto four sections. The first consists of an extended introduction. Keyfoundational and somewhat more technical papers are included in thesecond part, together with a clear exposition of the "orthodox"interpretation of quantum mechanics. The third part addresses, in anon-technical fashion, the implications of the theory for some of themost profound questions that mankind has contemplated: How does theworld come to be just what it is and not something else? How shouldhumans view themselves in a quantum universe? What will be the impacton society of the revised scientific image of the nature of man? Thefinal part contains a mathematical appendix for the specialist and aglossary of important terms and ideas for the interested layman. Thisthird edition has been significantly expanded with two new chapterscovering the author's most recent work.



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