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How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? - Top-Down Causation in the Human Context (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016) Loot Price: R4,270
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How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? - Top-Down Causation in the Human Context (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): George Ellis

How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? - Top-Down Causation in the Human Context (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

George Ellis

Series: The Frontiers Collection

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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 particular in the human brain, relating this to the emergence of higher levels of complexity with real causal powers. In particular it explores the idea of top-down causation, which is the key effect allowing the emergence of true complexity and also enables the causal efficacy of non-physical entities, including the value of money, social conventions, and ethical choices.

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag
Country of origin: Germany
Series: The Frontiers Collection
Release date: June 2016
First published: 2016
Authors: George Ellis
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 482
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13: 978-3-662-49807-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Statistical physics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
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LSN: 3-662-49807-3
Barcode: 9783662498071

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