Are You Conscious, and Can You Prove It?: Short Science Essays - Couverture souple

Deutsch, Sid

 
9780595290826: Are You Conscious, and Can You Prove It?: Short Science Essays
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595290825 ISBN 13 : 9780595290826
Editeur : iUniverse, 2003

Synopsis

This book came about because there are scientific "controversial matters" that gnawed away at my peace of mind. So when I "retired," I finally had time to write about biomedical topics, about some of the weird phenomena of physics, about the minds of suicide bombers, and about less serious subjects such as the condominium swimming pool. My original intention was to have some of this stuff published in a "recognized journal," but one can die (and authors frequently do exactly that) while waiting for publication. Then, my daughter Alice suggested a Web site. What a brilliant and politically-correct idea! Eventually, I filled the Web site with 22 short essays. So instead of scientists who are relatively impervious to change, I managed to attract some "intelligent laypersons." Many of them urged me to assemble a book out of the essays, but this required expansion: figures, tables, equations, references. The equations are (mercifully) hidden as appendixes at the back of the book. I started to extract an Index, but abandoned it as being unnecessary, in the hope that the title of each Chapter hints at its contents.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book came about because there are scientific "controversial matters" that gnawed away at my peace of mind. So when I "retired," I finally had time to write about biomedical topics, about some of the weird phenomena of physics, about the minds of suicide bombers, and about less serious subjects such as the condominium swimming pool. My original intention was to have some of this stuff published in a "recognized journal," but one can die (and authors frequently do exactly that) while waiting for publication. Then, my daughter Alice suggested a Web site. What a brilliant and politically-correct idea! Eventually, I filled the Web site with 22 short essays. So instead of scientists who are relatively impervious to change, I managed to attract some "intelligent laypersons." Many of them urged me to assemble a book out of the essays, but this required expansion: figures, tables, equations, references. The equations are (mercifully) hidden as appendixes at the back of the book. I started to extract an Index, but abandoned it as being unnecessary, in the hope that the title of each Chapter hints at its contents.

Biographie de l'auteur

The author holds a Ph.D. from Polytechnic University, and taught electrical engineering and biomedical engineering for more than 40 years at the university level. A Fellow of IEEE and of the Society for Information Display, and the author or co-author of six technical books, Dr. Deutsch lives in Sarasota, Florida.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595290825
ISBN 13 
9780595290826
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
209
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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