The partitioned quantum universe: Entanglement and the emergence of functionality

Mind and Matter

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 67-89

  Mahler, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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