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Tables of Contents for Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat?
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PROLOGUE
xiii
4
INTRODUCTION The New Science and the New Thinking
xvii
Overview of the New Sciences
3
36
A. Kinds of Being
3
9
B. Order in Science and Thought
12
8
C. The New Sciences of the Mind
20
6
D. The Cosmic Canopy
26
13
ABSOLUTE ZERO
39
1
ACTUALITY AND POTENTIALITY IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
40
3
THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE
43
2
ANTIMATTER
45
1
THE ARROW OF TIME
46
3
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
49
2
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
51
1
ATOMISM
52
3
ATTENTION
55
2
ATTRACTORS
57
2
AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS
59
1
BECOMING
60
2
BEHAVIORISM
62
2
BELL'S THEOREM
64
4
THE BIG BANG
68
1
THE BINDING PROBLEM
69
2
THE BLACK BOX
71
1
BLACK HOLES
72
1
BLINDSIGHT
73
2
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION
75
2
BOSONS
77
1
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
77
2
CATASTROPHE THEORY
79
2
CAUSALITY
81
2
CHAOS AND SELF-ORGANIZATION
83
3
CHAOS THEORIES OF MIND
86
1
CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES
87
1
CHEMICAL ORGANIZATION
88
1
THE CHINESE ROOM
89
2
THE CHURCH-TURING THESIS
91
2
COEVOLUTION
93
1
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
94
1
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
94
2
COHERENCE
96
1
COLD FUSION
96
3
COLLAPSE OF THE WAVE FUNCTION
99
1
COLOR -- WHAT IS IT?
99
2
COMPLEMENTARITY
101
2
COMPLEXITY
103
2
COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
105
2
CONNECTIONISM
107
2
CONSCIOUSNESS, TOWARD A SCIENCE OF
109
1
CONSTRUCTION COPIER MACHINES
110
2
CONTEXTUALISM
112
2
CONTINUOUS SYMMETRIES
114
3
COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION
117
1
THE COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE
118
1
COSMOLOGY
119
1
CPT SYMMETRY
119
1
CRICK'S HYPOTHESIS
120
2
CYBERNETICS
122
1
DARK MATTER
123
1
DARWINIAN EVOLUTION
124
3
DETERMINISM
127
2
DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES
129
1
DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS IN ASTRONOMY
130
1
DNA
131
3
THE EDGE OF CHAOS
134
1
THE ELECTROWEAK FORCE
135
2
EMERGENCE
137
2
ENTROPY
139
3
EQUILIBRIUM
142
1
THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
143
1
EXPERT SYSTEMS
144
1
FEEDBACK
145
2
PSYCHOLOGY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
278
3
PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
281
1
QUANTUM
282
2
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
284
2
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
286
1
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
287
3
QUANTUM GRAVITY
290
3
A QUANTUM HUSSY
293
2
QUANTUM PHYSICS
295
4
QUANTUM THEORIES OF MIND
299
2
QUANTUM TUNNELING
301
2
THE QUANTUM VACUUM
303
2
QUARKS
305
1
QUASARS
306
1
REDUCTIONISM
307
2
RELATIVISTIC COSMOLOGY
309
2
RELATIVITY AND RELATIVISM
311
2
RESONANCE
313
1
THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
314
2
SELF-ENERGY
316
1
SERIAL PROCESSING
317
1
SOCIOBIOLOGY
317
1
SOLITIONS
318
1
SPECIAL RELATIVITY
319
3
THE SPEED OF LIGHT
322
1
SPIN AND STATISTICS
323
1
SPLIT-BRAIN PHENOMENA
324
3
THE STANDARD MODEL
327
2
STARS
329
2
STATISTICAL MECHANICS
331
1
THE STEADY-STATE HYPOTHESIS
332
1
STRUCTURALISM
332
1
SUPERCONDUCTORS
333
2
SUPERFLUIDS
335
1
SUPERGRAVITY
336
1
SUPERNOVAS
337
1
SUPERPOSITIONS
338
1
SUPERSTRINGS
339
2
SUPERSYMMETRY
341
2
SYMMETRY BREAKING
343
3
SYSTEMS THEORY
346
3
TACHYONS
349
1
TELEOLOGY
350
1
THEORIES OF EVERYTHING
351
2
THERMODYNAMICS
353
2
THINKING
355
2
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM
357
3
TIME
360
1
TIME TRAVEL
361
3
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
364
3
TURING MACHINES
367
2
THE TURING TEST
369
2
THE TWINS PARADOX
371
1
TWISTORS
371
2
VIRTUAL PARTICLES
373
1
VIRTUAL TRANSITIONS
374
2
VISUAL PERCEPTION
376
3
VITALISM
379
2
THE WAVE FUNCTION AND SCHORDINGER'S EQUATION
381
3
WAVE/PARTICLE DUALITY
384
3
WORMHOLES
387
1
WRINKLES IN THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
388
3
INDEX
391
FERMIONS
147
1
THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
148
1
FORMAL COMPUTATION
149
4
FRACTALS
153
5
FROHLICH SYSTEMS
158
1
FUNCTIONALISM
159
2
FUZZY LOGIC
161
2
THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS
163
2
GALAXIES
165
1
THE GAME OF LIFE
166
1
GAMES, THEORY OF
167
2
GAUGE FIELDS
169
1
GENERAL RELATIVITY
170
2
GESTALT AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
172
3
GODEL'S THEOREM
175
3
GRAND UNIFIED THEORIES
178
2
THE GREAT ATTRACTOR
180
1
HADRONS
181
1
HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
181
3
HOLISM
184
4
THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
188
3
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
191
2
IDENTITY IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
193
4
IMPLICATE ORDER
197
2
INDETERMINACY
199
3
INERTIAL FRAMES
202
1
INFLATION THEORY
203
2
INFORMATION
205
3
INTELLIGENCE IN THE UNIVERSE
208
2
INTERMITTENCY
210
1
ITERATION
211
2
LAMARCKISM
213
1
LANGUAGE
214
3
LASERS
217
2
LEPTONS
219
1
THE MANDELBROT SET
219
2
THE MANY-WORLDS THEORY
221
1
THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM
221
3
MEDITATION
224
1
MEMORY
225
2
MESONS
227
1
METHODS OF STUDYING THE BRAIN
228
2
THE MILKY WAY
230
2
THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
232
3
NANOBIOLOGY
235
1
NEURAL DARWINISM
236
1
NEURAL MODULES
237
1
NEURAL NETWORKS
238
3
NEURONS
241
2
NEUROSCIENCE
243
2
NEUTRINOS
245
1
NEUTRON STARS
246
1
NONLINEARITY
247
2
NONLOCALITY
249
2
OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY
251
2
OLBERS'S PARADOX
253
1
OLFACTORY PERCEPTION
254
1
OPEN SYSTEMS
255
2
PARALLEL PROCESSING
257
1
THE PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE
257
3
PENROSE ON NONCOMPUTABILITY
260
1
PERCEPTION
261
2
THE PERFECT COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE
263
1
PERSPECTIVE AND INTERACTION
264
1
PHASE
265
1
PHASE TRANSITIONS
266
1
THE PLANCK ERA
267
2
PLANCK'S CONSTANT
269
1
PLASMA
270
1
PREDATOR-PREY
271
1
PROCESS
272
2
PSYCHIATRY
274
1
PSYCHODYNAMICS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
275
3