Physics in Mind
Subtitle: A Quantum View of the Brain
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Jan 29, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780465029846
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain