Pico, Richard M.

Consciousness in four dimensions : biological relativity and the origins of thought / Richard M. Pico. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002. - xi, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-388) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction Toward a Framework for Consciousness -- Part One: Dimensions of Space and Time -- Chapter 1 Einstein's Vision of the Universe I: Relativity and Reference Systems --Part Two: Dimensions of Life -- Chapter 2 Evolution and the Emergence of Life -- Chapter 3 The Reference System of Life --Part Three: Dimensions of Consciousness -- Chapter 4 Development and Systems of Neurons -- Chapter 5 The Brain and Sensory Information -- Chapter 6 The Emergence of Consciousness -- Chapter 7 The Thought Effect --Part Four: Thresholds of Thought in Evolution and Development -- Chapter 8 Insect Thoughts and Animal Minds -- Chapter 9 Human Thought and the Emergent Twos -- Part Five: Infinite Reflection -- Chapter 10 Reference Systems of Consciousness I: Constraints of Structure and Function -- Chapter 11 Reference Systems of Consciousness II: Interpreting the World -- Chapter 12 Einstein's Vision of the Universe II: The Structure of Space-Time -- Chapter 13 Beyond Behaviorism and Mentalism: Toward a Framework for Biological Relativity -- Notes.

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Consciousness.
Brain--Evolution.

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