The conscious electromagnetic information (cemi) field theory: The hard problem made easy?

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 45-60

  McFadden, Johnjoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherence; Consciousness; Electromagnetic field; Hard problem; Synchronous firing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036384752     PISSN: 13558250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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