Physics in mind : a quantum view of the brain
"In Physics in Mind, eminent biophysicist Werner R. Loewenstein seeks answers to these perplexing questions in the mechanisms of physics. Bringing information theory--the idea that all information can be quantified and encoded in bits--to bear on recent advances in the neurosciences, Loewenstein reveals inside the brain a web of immense computational power capable of rendering a coherent representation of the world outside. He guides us on an exhilarating journey along the sensory data stream of the brain--the stream that nurses our cognitions--and we see how the vast amounts of information coming in from the world outside get processed by the web, how its neurons gradually extract meaning from this hodgepodge, and how they arrive at a coherent picture of the world"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2013
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, New York, 2013
Nonfiction
xvii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780465029846, 0465029841
778420640
Our sense of time: time's arrow
Information arrows
The second coming
The sensors
Quantum sensing
Quantum into molecular information
Molecular sensing
Electronic transmission of biological information
The random generators of biomolecular complexity
The ascent of the digital demons
The second information arrow and its astonishing dénouement: consciousness
How to represent the world
Expanded reality
Information processing in the brain
Information transforms in the cortex and the genesis of meaning
The conscious experience
Consciousness and quantum information
Molecular quantum information processing and quantum computing
Quantum information processing and the brain
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