How Can Physics Underlie the Mind?

Top-Down Causation in the Human Context

By:

George Ellis

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Frontiers Collection

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

May 30th, 2018

Author

George Ellis

Series

The Frontiers Collection

Pages

482

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

36 Illustrations, black and white; XXVI, 482 p. 36 illus.

Dimensions

156x234x26

ISBN-13

9783662570364

Product ID

28206786

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