Mind Matter Interaction

Author : Pamela Rae Heath, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645668X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind-Matter Interaction written by Pamela Rae Heath, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of the mind to influence the physical world has long been debated, debunked, studied for military applications, and used in science fiction. This historical and theoretical study of mind-matter interaction, or MMI, explores the phenomena of levitation, stigmata, inedia, paranormal activity, bilocation, fire immunity, luminosity, and the teleportation of matter. The results of more than a century of formal experimental research are discussed, as are resultant training techniques, theories, and controlled experiments used to test or bolster psychokinetic abilities.

Author : Henry P. Stapp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662053691
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics written by Henry P. Stapp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scientists other than quantum physicists often fail to comprehend the enormity of the conceptual change wrought by quantum theory in our basic conception of the nature of matter," writes Henry Stapp. Stapp is a leading quantum physicist who has given particularly careful thought to the implications of the theory that lies at the heart of modern physics. In this book, which contains several of his key papers as well as new material, he focuses on the problem of consciousness and explains how quantum mechanics allows causally effective conscious thought to be combined in a natural way with the physical brain made of neurons and atoms. The book is divided into four sections. The first consists of an extended introduction. Key foundational and somewhat more technical papers are included in the second part, together with a clear exposition of the "orthodox" interpretation of quantum mechanics. The third part addresses, in a non-technical fashion, the implications of the theory for some of the most profound questions that mankind has contemplated: How does the world come to be just what it is and not something else? How should humans view themselves in a quantum universe? What will be the impact on society of the revised scientific image of the nature of man? The final part contains a mathematical appendix for the specialist and a glossary of important terms and ideas for the interested layman. This new edition has been updated and extended to address recent debates about consciousness.

Author : Paavo T. I. Pylkkänen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540480587
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order written by Paavo T. I. Pylkkänen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and easy-to-follow book offers a new approach to consciousness. The author’s eclectic style combines new physics-based insights with those of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience. He proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally.

Author : James D. Madden
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221420
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Matter, and Nature written by James D. Madden and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for students, Mind, Matter, and Nature presumes no prior philosophical training on the part of the reader. The book nevertheless holds the arguments discussed to rigorous standards and is conversant with recent literature, thus making it useful as well to more advanced students and professionals interested in a resource on Thomistic hylomorphism in the philosophy of mind.

Author : Beverly Anne Rubik
Publisher : Center for Frontier Sciences Temple University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interrelationship Between Mind and Matter written by Beverly Anne Rubik and published by Center for Frontier Sciences Temple University. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary collection of papers offers new perspectives and scientific evidence for the interconnectedness between consciousness and the material world.

Author : Anil Ananthaswamy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101986107
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Two Doors at Once written by Anil Ananthaswamy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost two hundred years later. Many of science's greatest minds have grappled with the simple yet elusive "double-slit" experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show that light behaves like a wave, and in doing so opposed Isaac Newton. Nearly a century later, Albert Einstein showed that light comes in quanta, or particles, and the experiment became key to a fierce debate between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality. Richard Feynman held that the double slit embodies the central mystery of the quantum world. Decade after decade, hypothesis after hypothesis, scientists have returned to this ingenious experiment to help them answer deeper and deeper questions about the fabric of the universe. How can a single particle behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it, or does the very act of looking create reality? Are there hidden aspects to reality missing from the orthodox view of quantum physics? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and the familiar classical world of our daily lives begins, and if so, can we find it? And if there's no such place, then does the universe split into two each time a particle goes through the double slit? With his extraordinarily gifted eloquence, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world and through history, down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed. Through Two Doors at Once is the most fantastic voyage you can take.

Author : Goutam Ghosh
Publisher : BecomeShakespeare.com
ISBN 13 : 9390543878
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interaction Matters - From Materials to Mind written by Goutam Ghosh and published by BecomeShakespeare.com. This book was released on 1900 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe got created through a massive explosion called Big Bang, of a tiny body dispersing enormous energy. Then it started inflating and cooling rapidly. Some energy got converted into elementary particles, the ‘embryos’ of all matters from microscopic objects to gigantic galaxies. Earth was born much later as a barren rocky protoplanet. Afterward evolved gloriously as a blue-green sphere with several layers of rock structures, and water on the surface. Molecules of life got synthesized under the water through an abiogenesis process. Then unicellular organisms evolved and advanced to multicellular organisms. Finally, human beings came. The human body has superb physiology of several organ systems whose functions vis-á-vis dysfunctions and medicinal interference get supervised by the brain. The brain also helps thinking, communicating with the environment through a nonmaterialistic mind that builds our creativity and human relationships using neural signals. Does interaction matter from materials to mind? Let’s find the answer.

Author : David H. Hodgson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind Matters written by David H. Hodgson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hodgson presents a clear and compelling case against today's orthodox mechanistic view of the brain-mind, and in favor of the view that "the mind matters." In the course of the argument he ranges over such topics as consciousness, informal reasoning, computers, evolution, and quantum indeterminancy and non-locality. Although written from a philosophical viewpoint, the book has important implications for the sciences concerned with the brain-mind problem. At the same time, it is largely non-technical, and thus accessible to the non-specialist reader.

Author : Paul Halpern
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541673646
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Synchronicity written by Paul Halpern and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aristotle's Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneous connections in this insightful examination of our world. For millennia, scientists have puzzled over a simple question: Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen at the same instant as the actions that caused them -- and some effects, ludicrously, might even happen before their causes. By one hundred years ago, it seemed clear that the speed of light was the fastest possible speed. Causality was safe. And then quantum mechanics happened, introducing spooky connections that seemed to circumvent the law of cause and effect. Inspired by the new physics, psychologist Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli explored a concept called synchronicity, a weird phenomenon they thought could link events without causes. Synchronicity tells that sprawling tale of insight and creativity, and asks where these ideas -- some plain crazy, and others crazy powerful -- are taking the human story next.

Author : Jack A. Tuszynski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540367233
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Physics of Consciousness written by Jack A. Tuszynski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks answers to these questions using the underlying assumption that consciousness can be understood using the intellectual potential of modern physics and other sciences. There are a number of theories of consciousness, some based on classical physics while others require the use of quantum concepts. The latter ones have drawn criticism from the parts of the scientific establishment while simultaneously claiming that classical approaches are doomed to failure. The contributing authors presents a spectrum of opinions from both sides of this on-going scientific debate, allowing readers to decide for themselves which of the approaches are most likely to succeed.