Consciousness as a phenomenon in the operational architectonics of brain organization: Criticality and self-organization considerations

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-31

  Fingelkurts, Andrew A ^a   Fingelkurts, Alexander A ^a   Neves, Carlos F H ^a  

^a BM Science   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

BRAIN ACTIVITY; COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA; HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS; META-STABLE; NESTED HIERARCHY; PHYSICAL WORLD; SELF ORGANIZATIONS;

BRAIN;

EID: 84885179896     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2013.02.007     Document Type: Article

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