Volume 1 No 4 (2003)
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The issue of multi-scaling in neuroscientific research is examined with respect to a quantum field theoretic account of mind and brain.
Sultan TARLACI
Abstract
Quantum mechanics deals with the behaviour of matter and light on the atomic and
subatomic scale. It attempts to describe and account for the properties of
molecules and atoms and their constituents--electrons, protons, neutrons, and
other more esoteric particles such as quarks and gluons. Its concepts frequently
conflict with common-sense notions derived from observations of the everyday
world. Quantum mechanics has attracted some of the ablest scientists of the 20th
century, and they have erected what is perhaps the finest intellectual edifice of the
period. Quantum mechanics is concerned with phenomena that are so small-scale
that they cannot be described in classical terms. The history of quantum mechanics
may be divided into three main periods. The first began with Planck's theory of
black-body radiation in 1900; it may be described as the period in which the validity
of Planck's constant was demonstrated but its real meaning was not fully
understood. The second period began with the quantum theory of atomic structure
and spectra proposed by Niels Bohr in 1913. True quantum mechanics appeared in
1926, reaching fruition nearly simultaneously in a variety of forms--namely, the
matrix theory of Max Born and Werner Heisenberg, the wave mechanics of Louis
V. de Broglie and Erwin Schrödinger, and the transformation theory of P.A.M. Dirac
and Pascual Jordan
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