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

by George Francis Rayner Ellis

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 366257036X
• ISBN13: 9783662570364
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"