Brain and Being -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Note -- 1. Doubling the image to face the obscenity of photography -- picture -- The image and the origin of its doubles -- picture -- The photographic obscenity -- Notes -- References -- ``Photobjet'' -- ``The un-possible image'' -- 2. The self-transcendence of consciousness towards its models -- Note -- References -- 3. The unthinkable -- 1. An outline of nonclassical theory -- 2. Kant, Freud, and the nonclassical epistemology of the mind -- 3. Quantum theory as nonclassical theory -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Mental presence and the temporal present -- How does it feel to be a brain? -- From the dualism of views to the difference in ontology -- Quantum memory -- Actualization and temporality -- The passage of time and the mirror image in time -- The `paradox' of temporal change -- Ontological complementarity -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5. The psycho-emotional-physical unity of living organisms as an outcome of quantum physics -- Introduction -- 1. The revolutions in the physics of the 20th century -- 2. Coherence in condensed and living matter -- 3. The interaction through the phase: Emotions and perception of the emotions -- the dual system -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 6. Dual mode ontology and its application to the Riemann Hypothesis* -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Dual mode Quantum Brain Dynamics (QBD) -- Alter universe as default -- Between-two -- Creation and annihilation dynamics -- Dual mode and unimode memory traces -- Time -- Assignment of the subject -- Control of the conjugate match and the result -- Review -- 2. Consciousness, subjectivity and the alter universe -- Quantum physics and consciousness -- Unpacking consciousness -- Parallel world-thrownness.

Mode and the subject -- ``I'' -- 3. Quotidian and monadological ontologies -- 4. Application to the Riemann Hypothesis -- Introduction -- Riemann's Hypothesis -- Afterword -- Note -- References -- 7. Quantum monadology and consciousness -- 1. The aim of quantum monadology -- 2. NL world -- 3. Quantum monadology -- 4. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Quantum connectionism and the emergence of cognition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The connectionist approach and ANN models -- 3. What is emergence? -- 4. Why quantum theory? -- 5. Quantum neurons -- 6. Quantum neural networks -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- 9. The rheomode of language of David Bohm as a way to re-construct the access to physical reality -- 1. The rheomode of language - the basic idea -- 2. The way of the rheomode of language -- 3. A structural and functional characterization of the first tetrad of rheoverbs -- 4. The `direct referents' of the first tetrad of rheoverbs or what makes the rheomode of language so difficult to appreciate -- 4.1. Attention -- 4.2. `Intelligent' perception -- 4.3. Blocking natural-language-specific recursion -- 4.4. Thinking vs. intelligence -- 5. Conclusion: The challenge of the rheomode of language -- Notes -- References -- 10. Can quantum analogies help us to understand the process of thought? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analogies between quantum processes and thought processes -- 2.1. An uncertainty principle for the process of thought -- 2.2. Holistic features of thought and quantum processes -- 2.3. The classical limit of quantum theory and the logical aspect of thought processes -- 3. Cognitive science and quantum analogies -- 4. Post-phenomenology and quantum analogies -- 5. Concluding reflections -- Notes -- References -- 11. Information, quantum theory and the brain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The notion of information.

3. Common mathematical symmetries -- 4. The Wigner-Moyal approach -- 5. Gabor information and the radar ambiguity function -- 6. The Bohm approach to quantum mechanics and information dynamics -- 7. A more detailed discussion of information and meaning -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 12. Brain and mathematics -- A personal road of discovery -- Scale -- Deep and surface processing scales -- Quantum Brain Dynamics -- Formalisms -- The quantum formalism -- The Fourier relationship -- Of matter and mind -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13. Searching for the biophysics of an elementary system -- Towards the future -- Notes -- References -- 14. Brain and physics of many-body problems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some necessary requirements to be satisfied by a model of brain -- 3. Outline of the model -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 15. Quantum Brain Dynamics and Quantum Field Theory -- 1. Motivation -- 2. Why Quantum Field Theory? -- 3. A brief history of QBD -- 4. Fundamental and metabolizing systems of living matter -- 5. Physical picture of the fundamental system of living matter -- 6. What is Quantum Brain Dynamics? -- 7. Collective mode and Goldstone mode -- 8. Memory as vacuum state of the corticon system -- 9. Quantum decay process of memory -- 10. Outlook -- References -- 16. Brain and Quantum Field Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On the physical-biological discontinuity -- 2.1. Cooperative phenomena in quantum physics and biology -- 2.2. Biological union and partitioning -- 2.3. Choice of partitioning functions -- 3. Some assumptions about the brain -- 4. Purpose and theoretical meaning -- 5. Quantum Brain Dynamics - QBD -- 5.1. Degenerate ground states and memory -- 5.2. Nambu-Goldstone bosons and memory retrieval -- 6. Further problems -- 6.1. Refined QBD model.

6.2. Analysis by change of variables -- 6.3. Nambu-Goldstone bosons and memory -- 6.4. Formulation as non-equilibrium states -- 7. Outlook -- References -- 17. The dissipative brain -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Broken symmetry and order -- 3. The brain is a dissipative system -- drawing -- 6. Doubts and mistakes. Toward the construction of an erratic device -- Note -- References -- drawing -- 4. Entanglement, chaos and coherence -- 5. The trade with the Double: A route to consciousness? -- Name index -- Subject index -- List of the contributors -- The series Advances in Consciousness Research.