Information Dynamics in Cognitive, Psychological, Social, and Anomalous Phenomena (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 250 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition February 29, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1402018681
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1402018688
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
This book develops a new physical/mathematical model for the functioning of the human brain, based, not on the modern Newton-Einstein view of physical reality, but on 'information reality'. The work is devoted to the physical-mathematical modeling of (conscious) cognitive phenomena. The most important distinguishing feature of the theory presented here is a new model of mental space, the so-called p-adic hierarchic tree space, and the development of mental analogs of classical and quantum mechanics. Mental processes and more general information processes are handled as a kind of new physical processes. In particular, the procedure of information quantization and an information analog of Bohmian mechanics are developed. Here, mind is a singularity in the mental pilot wave. Applications to neurophysiology, localization of mental function and brain ablations, and psychology (in particular, Freud's psychoanalysis) are considered.