'Funda-Mentality': Is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 119-124

  Hameroff, Stuart R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW;

EID: 0031876194     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01157-7     Document Type: Article

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