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	Reality and Consciousness: The Metabrain and the Quantum By Thomas G Schumann 2013 \| The Round Thing Copy Available: Yes Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Philosophy of Materialism and Mentalism A comparison of matter in space and time and sensations in the mind; which is the ultimate reality? Does the world exist independently or is it dependent on being obser ...


	The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics Edited By Alyssa Ney 2013 \| Oxford University Press Copy Available: No This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? Does quan ...


	The Quantum Divide: Why Schrödinger's Cat is Either Dead or Alive By Christopher C. Gerry, Kimberley M. Bruno 2013 \| Oxford University Press Copy Available: No Using a selection of key experiments performed over the past 30 years or so, The Quantum Divide presents a discussion of the strikingly counter-intuitive phenomena of the quantum world that defy explanation in terms of everyday "common sense" reasoni ...


	Quantum Information Theory By Mark M. Wilde 2013 \| Cambridge University Press Copy Available: No Finally, here is a modern, self-contained text on quantum information theory suitable for graduate-level courses. Developing the subject 'from the ground up' it covers classical results as well as major advances of the past decade. Beginning with an ...


	Quantum Physics: The Bottom-Up Approach: From the Simple Two-Level System to Irreducible Representations By Dirk Dubbers, Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann 2013 \| Springer Copy Available: No This concise tutorial provides the bachelor student and the practitioner with a short text on quantum physics that allows them to understand a wealth of quantum phenomena based on a compact, well readable, yet still concise and accurate description o ...


	Quantum Concepts in Physics: An Alternative Approach to the Understanding of Quantum Mechanics By Malcolm Longair 2013 \| Cambridge University Press Copy Available: No Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twen ...


	Quantum Computing since Democritus By Scott Aaronson 2013 \| Cambridge University Press Copy Available: No Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an ama ...


	Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution By John Gribbin 2013 \| Wiley; 1 edition Copy Available: No Erwin Schrödinger, best known for his famous “Schrödinger's Cat” paradox, is one of the most famous physicists of the early twentieth century and a member of a new generation of quantum physicists, including Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Niels B ...


	Infinite Potential: What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live By Lothar Schafer 2013 \| Deepak Chopra Copy Available: No In Infinite Potential, physical chemist Lothar Schäfer presents a stunning view of the universe as interconnected, nonmaterial, composed of a field of infinite potential, and conscious. With his own research as well as that of some of the most distin ...


	The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable By James Owen Weatherall 2012 \| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Copy Available: No After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street fai ...


	Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain By Werner Loewenstein 2013 \| Basic Books; First Edition edition Copy Available: No No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are “aware” of something? What is this peculiar state in ...


	Are We Real?: Exploring Quantum Mechanics And Physics Laws In Relation To Our Universe As A Gigantic Computer Simulation By Eric Teng 2013 \| CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Copy Available: No This book explores the most extreme questions through science. Questions such as is there life after death? Are we living inside a gigantic computer simulation? Is reality really what it seems? Is immortality a possibility? Can we really cure cancer? ...


	Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations By Erol Başar 2011 \| Springer Copy Available: No Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations is a research monograph, with didactical features, on the mechanisms of the mind, encompassing a wide spectrum of results and analyses. The book should appeal to sc ...


	Advances in Application of Quantum Mechanics in Neuroscience and Psychology: A Clifford Algebraic Approach By Elio Conte 2012 \| NOVA Publisher Copy Available: No The first psychological studies and physics were once both considered together in the realm of psychology. Today, neuroscience, psychology and physics are seen together very infrequently. When physics is seen linked to mathematics as it is in the cas ...


	Elegance and Enigma: The Quantum Interviews By Maximilian Schlosshauer 2011 \| Springer Copy Available: No Quantum mechanics is one of mankind's most remarkable intellectual achievements. Stunningly successful and elegant, it challenges our deepest intuitions about the world. In this book, seventeen physicists and philosophers, all deeply concerned with u ...


	The Quantum Doctor: A Quantum Physicist Explains the Healing Power of Integral Medicine By Amit Goswami 2011 \| Hampton Roads Publishing; Revised edition Copy Available: No For quantum physicist Amit Goswami, medicine is a timely area of application for the new science based on the primacy of consciousness. This new science has a spectacular ability to integrate conventional science, spirituality, and healing. If any fi ...


	The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) By Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw 2012 \| Da Capo Press Copy Available: No In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible—and fascinating—to everyone. The subatomic realm has a re ...


	Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness Edited By Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner 2011 \| Oxford University Press, USA Copy Available: No In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found, to their embarrassment, that with their theory, physics encounters consciousness. Autho ...


	The Transparent Becoming of World: A crossing between process philosophy and quantum neurophilosophy By Gordon G Globbus 2009 \| John Benjamins Publishing Company Copy Available: No The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect rea ...


	Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind: In Search of a Symmetry Bond Edited By Earl R. Mac Cormac, Maksim I. Stamenov 1996 \| John Benjamins Pub Co Copy Available: No This volume discusses the possibilities of modelling different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the po ...


	Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality By Dean Radin 2006 \| Paraview Pocket Books Copy Available: No Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the ...

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	Reality and Consciousness: The Metabrain and the Quantum By Thomas G Schumann 2013 \| The Round Thing Copy Available: Yes Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Philosophy of Materialism and Mentalism A comparison of matter in space and time and sensations in the mind; which is the ultimate reality? Does the world exist independently or is it dependent on being obser ...


	The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics Edited By Alyssa Ney 2013 \| Oxford University Press Copy Available: No This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? Does quan ...


	The Quantum Divide: Why Schrödinger's Cat is Either Dead or Alive By Christopher C. Gerry, Kimberley M. Bruno 2013 \| Oxford University Press Copy Available: No Using a selection of key experiments performed over the past 30 years or so, The Quantum Divide presents a discussion of the strikingly counter-intuitive phenomena of the quantum world that defy explanation in terms of everyday "common sense" reasoni ...


	Quantum Information Theory By Mark M. Wilde 2013 \| Cambridge University Press Copy Available: No Finally, here is a modern, self-contained text on quantum information theory suitable for graduate-level courses. Developing the subject 'from the ground up' it covers classical results as well as major advances of the past decade. Beginning with an ...


	Quantum Physics: The Bottom-Up Approach: From the Simple Two-Level System to Irreducible Representations By Dirk Dubbers, Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann 2013 \| Springer Copy Available: No This concise tutorial provides the bachelor student and the practitioner with a short text on quantum physics that allows them to understand a wealth of quantum phenomena based on a compact, well readable, yet still concise and accurate description o ...


	Quantum Concepts in Physics: An Alternative Approach to the Understanding of Quantum Mechanics By Malcolm Longair 2013 \| Cambridge University Press Copy Available: No Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twen ...


	Quantum Computing since Democritus By Scott Aaronson 2013 \| Cambridge University Press Copy Available: No Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an ama ...


	Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution By John Gribbin 2013 \| Wiley; 1 edition Copy Available: No Erwin Schrödinger, best known for his famous “Schrödinger's Cat” paradox, is one of the most famous physicists of the early twentieth century and a member of a new generation of quantum physicists, including Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Niels B ...


	Infinite Potential: What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live By Lothar Schafer 2013 \| Deepak Chopra Copy Available: No In Infinite Potential, physical chemist Lothar Schäfer presents a stunning view of the universe as interconnected, nonmaterial, composed of a field of infinite potential, and conscious. With his own research as well as that of some of the most distin ...


	The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable By James Owen Weatherall 2012 \| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Copy Available: No After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street fai ...


	Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain By Werner Loewenstein 2013 \| Basic Books; First Edition edition Copy Available: No No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are “aware” of something? What is this peculiar state in ...


	Are We Real?: Exploring Quantum Mechanics And Physics Laws In Relation To Our Universe As A Gigantic Computer Simulation By Eric Teng 2013 \| CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Copy Available: No This book explores the most extreme questions through science. Questions such as is there life after death? Are we living inside a gigantic computer simulation? Is reality really what it seems? Is immortality a possibility? Can we really cure cancer? ...


	Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations By Erol Başar 2011 \| Springer Copy Available: No Brain-Body-Mind in the Nebulous Cartesian System: A Holistic Approach by Oscillations is a research monograph, with didactical features, on the mechanisms of the mind, encompassing a wide spectrum of results and analyses. The book should appeal to sc ...


	Advances in Application of Quantum Mechanics in Neuroscience and Psychology: A Clifford Algebraic Approach By Elio Conte 2012 \| NOVA Publisher Copy Available: No The first psychological studies and physics were once both considered together in the realm of psychology. Today, neuroscience, psychology and physics are seen together very infrequently. When physics is seen linked to mathematics as it is in the cas ...


	Elegance and Enigma: The Quantum Interviews By Maximilian Schlosshauer 2011 \| Springer Copy Available: No Quantum mechanics is one of mankind's most remarkable intellectual achievements. Stunningly successful and elegant, it challenges our deepest intuitions about the world. In this book, seventeen physicists and philosophers, all deeply concerned with u ...


	The Quantum Doctor: A Quantum Physicist Explains the Healing Power of Integral Medicine By Amit Goswami 2011 \| Hampton Roads Publishing; Revised edition Copy Available: No For quantum physicist Amit Goswami, medicine is a timely area of application for the new science based on the primacy of consciousness. This new science has a spectacular ability to integrate conventional science, spirituality, and healing. If any fi ...


	The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) By Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw 2012 \| Da Capo Press Copy Available: No In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible—and fascinating—to everyone. The subatomic realm has a re ...


	Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness Edited By Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner 2011 \| Oxford University Press, USA Copy Available: No In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found, to their embarrassment, that with their theory, physics encounters consciousness. Autho ...


	The Transparent Becoming of World: A crossing between process philosophy and quantum neurophilosophy By Gordon G Globbus 2009 \| John Benjamins Publishing Company Copy Available: No The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect rea ...


	Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind: In Search of a Symmetry Bond Edited By Earl R. Mac Cormac, Maksim I. Stamenov 1996 \| John Benjamins Pub Co Copy Available: No This volume discusses the possibilities of modelling different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the po ...


	Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality By Dean Radin 2006 \| Paraview Pocket Books Copy Available: No Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the ...

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