Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness

Scott, Alwyn

ISBN 10: 0387943811 / ISBN 13: 9780387943817

Published by Copernicus Books, NY, 1995

About this Item

First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket.Published NY: Copernicus Books, 1995. 8vo., xix+229 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness
• Publisher: Copernicus Books, NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387943811
• ISBN 13: 9780387943817
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

Stairway to the Mind explores one of the most exciting and controversial areas of modern science: consciousness and the nature of the mind. The book proposes that consciousness emerges from hierarchical layers of mental reality, in the same way that life emerges from layers of biological reality. The book is aimed at general readers with an interest in the mind and neuroscience, as well as a wide range of scientists whose work is related to the rapidly-growing field of neuroscience and consciousness research.

About the Author

Alwyn Scott is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona and in the Institute of Mathematical Modeling at the Technical University of Denmark. He is the founding editor of Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena, and the founding director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.