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An enthralling look at the convergence of brain science, biological computation and quantum physics, and what it implies about our minds, our selves, our future, even God Do we really have free will or do we just imagine we do? Do we create our own destinies, or are we merely machines? Will the machines we are now making themselves have free will? These are the fundamental questions of The Quantum Brain. To answer them, psychiatrist, researcher, and critically acclaimed author Jeffrey Satinover first explores the latest discoveries in neuroscience, modern physics, and radically new kinds of computing, then shows how, together, they suggest the brain embodies and amplifies the mysterious laws of quantum physics. By its doing so, Satinover argues we are elevated above the mere learning machines modern science assumes us to be. Satinover also makes two provocative predictions: We will soon construct artificial devices as free and aware as we are; as well as begin a startling re-evaluation of just who and what we are, of our place in the universe, and perhaps even of God.

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Author:   Jeffrey Satinover
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.604kg
ISBN:  

9780471333265

ISBN 10:   0471333263
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 April 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

"PART ONE: THE QUANTUM BRAIN. Introduction: The Quantum Crisis. Mind Out of Matter--The Machinery of the Fourth Brain. Opening the Mind's Eye. Death and Birth. Teaching a Young Dog Old Tricks. The Wet Net. Spinning the Glass Fantastic. The Game of Life, or How the Leopard Gets Its Spots. By Your Bootstraps. Is Man a Machine? PART TWO: MIRACLES. The Insoluble Solution. EPR: Wanted: Dead and Alive. E Unus Pluribum--Out of One Mystery, Many. Stranger in a Strange Land (The Stranger the Better). In the Matter of Mind. The Protean Computer. To Fickle Chance, and Chaos Judge the Strife. Quantum Ripples. Appendix A: The Simplest Hopfield Net and the ""Canonical Cortical Microcircuit"". Appendix B: The Tuszynski Microtubule Model. Appendix C: Coherence and Decoherence. Notes. Credits. Index."

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Jeffrey Satinover is a practicing psychiatrist, past president of the C. G. Jung Foundation, and a former Fellow in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at Yale University. He has been a William James Lecturer in Psychology and Religion at Harvard University. He is currently a special student at Yale. His other books include Cracking the Bible Code.

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