Author | Arduini, Arnaldo. author |
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Title | Principles of Theoretical Neurophysiology [electronic resource] / by Arnaldo Arduini |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1987 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71468-9 |
Descript | XII, 192p. online resource |
I General Properties of the Brain -- 1.Introducing the Problem -- 2. Structural and Functional Properties -- 3. The Key Property: Organization -- 4. Short Review of Approaches and Methods -- 5. Multidimensionality, Homogeneity and Fields -- II Physics and the Brain -- 6. A First Approach: Statistics -- 7. States of the Brain -- 8. Dynamic Laws and Transformations of Brain States -- 9. Reference Systems for Brain Function -- 10. The Continuum in the Central Nervous System -- 11. Outlines of a Theory -- 12. On this Side of the Border: Relativistic Aspects -- Appendix Beyond the Border: Metaphysics and the Brain A Sample of Problems -- A. 1 Introducing the Problems -- A. 2 Man and Animals -- A. 3 The Intellect -- A. 4 The Continuum -- A. 5 Theology and Neuroscience -- A. 6 Tension -- A. 7 Determination and Free Will -- References -- 1. Neurophysiology and Control Systems -- 2. Physics, Thermodynamics, Information Theory, and Related Subjects -- 3. Relativity and Related Subjects -- 4. Natural Philosophy -- 5. Appendix