A complexity basis for phenomenology: How information states at criticality offer a new approach to understanding experience of self, being and time

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 288-302

  Hankey, Alex ^a  

^a NONE

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ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; TIME;

EID: 84949197076     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.07.010     Document Type: Review

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