List Price: $48.007" x 10" (17.78 x 25.4 cm) Black & White on White paper828 pagesScience PublishersISBN-13: 978-1938024511 ISBN-10: 1938024516 BISAC: Science / Physics / Quantum TheoryIs consciousness an epiphenomenal happenstance of this particular universe? Or does the very concept of a universe depend upon its presence? Does consciousness merely perceive reality, or does reality depend upon it? Did consciousness simply emerge as an effect of evolution? Or was it, in some sense, always "out there" in the world? These questions and more, are addressed in this special edition.

"Contents selected from volumes 3 and 14, Journal of cosmology."

1. How Consciousness Becomes the Physical Universe. Menas Kafatos, Rudolph E. Tanzi, and Deepak Chopra 2. Cosmological Foundations of Consciousness. Chris King 3. The Origin of the Modern Anthropic Principle. Helge Kragh 4. Consciousness in the Universe: Neuroscience, Quantum Space-Time Geometry. Roger Penrose, and Stuart Hameroff 5. What Consciousness Does: A Quantum Cosmology of Mind. Chris J. S. Clarke 6. Quantum Physics & the Multiplicity of Mind: Split-Brains, Fragmented Minds, Dissociation, Quantum Consciousness. R. Joseph 7. Logic of Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenon of Consciousness. Michael B. Mensky 8. Evolution of Paleolithic Cosmology and Spiritual Consciousness. R. Joseph 9. Alien Life and Quantum Consciousness, Randy D. Allen 10. Evolution of Consciousness in the Ancient Corners of the Cosmos. R. Joseph 11. How Consciousness Became the Universe R. Joseph 12. Cosmology and Psyche in the Classical World: Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Ptolemy, Nicholas Campion 13. Was There A Ptolemaic Revolution in Ancient Egyptian Astronomy? Nicholas Campion

Chapter Contents 1. Freud, Jung, and the Collective Quantum Continuum of Cosmic Consciousness 6 2. How Consciousness Became the Universe 18 3. Awareness, the Origin of Thought, and the Role of Conscious Self-Deception in Resistance and Repression. 47 4. The Neuropsychology of Development: Hemispheric Laterality, Limbic Language, and the Origins of Thought 62 5. The Limbic System: Emotion, Laterality, and Unconscious Mind 99 6. Sex, Violence And Religious Experience 142 7. Origins of Thought: Consciousness, Language, Egocentric Speech and the Multiplicity of Mind 199 8. The Split Brain: Two Brains - Two Minds 222 9. Hunters, Gatherers, and the Evolution of Sex Differences in Language, Cognition, and Consciousness 259 10. Self Deception and Confabulation 315 11. The Neuroanatomy of Free Will: 326 12. Quantum Physics and the Multiplicity of Mind: Split-Brains, Fragmented Minds, Dissociation, Quantum Consciousness 349 13. Dissociation, Traumatic Stress, Dissociative Amnesia, Out-Of-Body Hallucinations, Flashbacks, PTSD, Catatonia, Paralytic Fear 385 14. Dreams and Hallucinations: Lifting the Veil to Multiple Perceptual Realities 432 15. Quantum Entanglement With the Future: Lincoln Dreams of His Assassination 464 16. Quantum Tunneling, LSD, Neuroscience, Doors of Perception 476 17. Paleolithic Cosmic Consciousness of the Cosmos 486 18. A Neuro-Cosmology of Death, Souls, Spirits, Rebirth, Astral Projection, Judgment Day, Hell, and the Second Death 515 19. Possession and Prophecy 577 20. Cosmology, The Uncertainty Principle, Wave Function, Probability, Entanglement, and Multiple Worlds 611 21. The Quantum Time Machine of Consciousness. Past Present Future Exist Simultaneously. 640 22. Consciousness of the Future: PreCognition, Premonition, Deja Vu 659 23. The Sixth Dimension: Dream Time, Precognition, Many Worlds 680 24. Accelerated Dream-Consciousness: Entangled Minds 703

Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within scientifically comprehensive physical laws.

Winner of the Wolf Prize for his contribution to our understanding of the universe, Penrose takes on the question of whether artificial intelligence will ever approach the intricacy of the human mind. 144 illustrations.