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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 8434794
TI  - How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? : Top-Down Causation in the Human Context
PY  - 2016
SN  - 3662498073 366249809X 9783662498071
PB  - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Physics.
KW  - Neurosciences.
KW  - Epistemology.
KW  - Evolutionary biology.
KW  - Neurobiology.
KW  - Statistical physics.
KW  - Dynamical systems.
KW  - Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.
KW  - Evolutionary Biology.
KW  - Physics
KW  - Philosophy.
KW  - Evolution (Biology).
KW  - Genetic epistemology.
KW  - Complex Systems.
KW  - Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.
KW  - Mathematical statistics
KW  - Developmental psychology
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Neurosciences
KW  - Animal evolution
KW  - Animals
KW  - Biological evolution
KW  - Darwinism
KW  - Evolutionary biology
KW  - Evolutionary science
KW  - Origin of species
KW  - Biology
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Biological fitness
KW  - Homoplasy
KW  - Natural selection
KW  - Phylogeny
KW  - Neural sciences
KW  - Neurological sciences
KW  - Neuroscience
KW  - Medical sciences
KW  - Nervous system
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Theory of knowledge
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Dynamical systems
KW  - Kinetics
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Mechanics, Analytic
KW  - Force and energy
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - Statics
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8434794
AB  - 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.
ER  -