Brain and Being

1. Foreword; 2. 1. Doubling image to face the obscenity of photography (by Prete, Nadia); 3. 2. The self-transcendence of consciousness towards its models: Consciousness as noumenal emergence. Some philosophical remarks on the Quantum Field Theory model of Giuseppe Vitiello (by Desideri, Fabrizio); 4. 3. The unthinkable: Nonclassical theory, the unconscious mind and the quantum brain (by Plotnitsky, Arkady); 5. 4. Mental presence and the temporal present (by Franck, Georg); 6. 5. The psycho-emotional-physical unity of living organisms as an outcome of quantum physics (by Giudice, Emilio Del); 7. 6. Dual mode ontology and its application to the Riemann Hypothesis (by Globus, Gordon G.); 8. 7. Quantum monadology and consciousness (by Nakagomi, Teruaki); 9. 8. Quantum connectionism and the emergence of cognition (by Pessa, Eliano); 10. 9. The rheomode of language of David Bohm as a way to re-construct the access to physical reality (by Stamenov, Maxim I.); 11. 10. Can quantum analogies help us to understand the process of thought? (by Pylkkanen, Paavo); 12. 11. Information, quantum theory and the brain (by Hiley, B.J.); 13. 12. Brain and mathematics (by Pribram, Karl H.); 14. 13. Searching for the biophysics of an elementary system (by Fleischmann, Martin); 15. 14. Brain and physics of many-body problems (by Ricciardi, Luigi Maria); 16. 15. Quantum Brain Dynamics and Quantum Field Theory (by Jibu, Mari); 17. 16. Brain and Quantum Field Theory: Notes on monumental discussions presenting Quantum Field Models of brain (by Takahashi, Yasushi); 18. 17. The dissipative brain (by Vitiello, Giuseppe); 19. Name index; 20. Subject index