The role of quantum physics in the theory of subjective consciousness

Mind and Matter

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-81

  Clarke, Chris J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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