How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? | Buch

Cover: 9783662498071 | How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? | George Ellis | Buch | xxvi | 2016

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

George Ellis, FRS, is one of the world's leading researchers in general relativity theory and cosmology. He is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking.

Zusammenfassung

Addresses one of science and philosophy's biggest puzzles: how complex structures that emerge from atoms and molecules can become causative agent

Argues that the human mind and resultant social agency has a special status among complex systems

Is fully consistent with present day physics, but also takes into account key features of biology and how the brain functions

Will appeal to general and academic readers alike

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Theoretische Physik
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Physik , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xxvi 482 S. 36 s/w Illustr. 482 p. 36 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783662498071
ISBN-10:	3662498073
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-662-49807-1
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ellis, George
Auflage:	1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Springer-Verlag GmbH Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	241 x 160 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	George Ellis
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.06.2016
Gewicht:	0,922 kg