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Stairway to the Mind

The Controversial New Science of Consciousness

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  • © 1995

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  1. Alwyn Scott
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 1-5

  3. Quantum Physics, Chemistry, and Consciousness

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 7-26

  4. The Chemistry of Life

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 27-41

  5. The Nerve Afire

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 43-54

  6. Is There a Computer In Your Head?

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 55-74

  7. An Enchanted Loom

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 75-103

  8. A Century of Brain-Mind Theory

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 105-143

  9. “A Great Arc” of Possibilities

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 145-157

  10. Toward an Emergent Theory of Consciousness

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 159-177

  11. “Then I Tell Them What I Told Them”

    • Alwyn Scott
    Pages 179-187

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 189-229
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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.

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