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We know what it is like to be conscious to have awareness, a conscious mind, but who, or what, are we who know such things. Mind and emergence philip clayton oxford university press. Systems neuroscience, systems psychology and consciousness. A response to alexander wendts book quantum mind and social science, journal for the theory of social behaviour, volume 48. Beautifully written and painstakingly argued, quantum mind and social science explores the potential impact that advances in quantum mechanics may. Jeffrey barrett presents the most comprehensive study yet of a problem that has puzzled physicists and philosophers since the 1930s. In the second half, he develops the implications of this metaphysical perspective for the nature of language and the agentstructure problem in social ontology.
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