Atoms of Mind The "Ghost in the Machine" Materializes
“There are books on the brain and books on the mind. However, only occasionally one finds a scholarly written thesis that explains how brain circuits give rise to perceptions, thoughts and consciousness. Bill Klemm’s book belongs to this exceptional categ
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W.R. Klemm
Atoms of Mind The “Ghost in the Machine” Materializes
W.R. Klemm College of Veterinary Medicine and Biome VMA Bldg. Room 107 4458 TAMU College Station, TX 77843 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-1096-2 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1097-9 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1097-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011927167 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
The human mind is a vast inner universe. Like everything else in the cosmos, mind materializes from atoms – atoms beautifully orchestrated by the laws of chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Those laws themselves are too rational, elegant, and powerful to have arisen spontaneously by chance from nothingness. Only a Master Creator could have produced such an intelligent design.
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To all those who supported, enabled, and inspired me to pursue a career of trying to learn how the brain works: parents, wife, and children teachers and professors neuroscientists, past and present colleagues and competitors Everybody I meet has something to teach me. My brain tries to learn from them all.
This 1,400 g of mush we call the human brain is the most magnificent creation in the universe. This brain engages the world on its own levels of conscious, subconscious, and even non-conscious mind. This brain creates the only reality it can truly know by what it attends to and detects. Such attention is immeasurably enriched by the self-generated creation of a conscious mind, operating as an avatar on behalf of the body and of itself. It sleeps, it dreams, and most important of all, when awake and fully human, it can be a free-will mind of its own.
Preface
Some pre-publication reviewers have said this book is not scholarly enough. Others said it was too scholarly. To the scholars I say, “I don’t intend this to be a book only for scholars, because human mind is too important to be left to specialists.” I would add “If you can overlook not being dazzled with brilliance, you will nonetheless find provocative ideas, and if you do resea
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