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Article: THE PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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THE PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Evan Harris Walker. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2000. Pp. ix + 368. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN 0-7382-0234-7.
The Physics of Consciousness is physicist's Evan Harris Walker's summary of his life's work attempting to relate the phenomenon of consciousness to the process of observation in quantum mechanics. In it, he reveals a poetic side of himself that may surprise readers who previously were familiar only with his technical writings. Throughout the book, Walker intersperses recollections of his adolescent sweetheart, Merilyn Ann Zehnder, who died of leukemia shortly after Walker graduated from high school. The book is in part an ...