Quantum brain dynamics and consciousness
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Mari Jibu, Kunio Yasue.
Contributors: Yasue, Kunio.
Series: Advances in consciousness research,; v. 3
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Consciousness.; Quantum theory.; Quantum field theory.; Brain -- physiology.; Quantum Theory.; Consciousness -- physiology.
Description: This introduction to quantum brain dynamics is accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The authors, a brain scientist and a theoretical physicist, present a new quantum framework for investigating advanced functions of the brain such as consciousness and memory. The book is the first to give a systematic account, founded in fundamental quantum physical principles, of how the brain functions as a unified system.

It is based on the quantum field theory originated in the 1960s by the great theoretical physicist, Hiroomi Umezawa, to whom the book is dedicated. It poses an alternative to the dominant conceptions in the neuro- and cognitive sciences, which take neurons organized into networks as the basic constituents of the brain. Certain physical substrates in the brain are shown to support quantum field phenomena, and the resulting strange quantum properties are used to explain consciousness and memory.

This change of perspective results in a radically new vision of how the brain functions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-201) and index.