ArticleChaos theory and the evolution of consciousness and mind: A thermodynamic-holographic resolution to the mind-body problem
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I gratefully acknowledge the many helpful comments and encouragements over the past several years of Allan Combs, Professsor of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Asheville, and of Paul D. MacLean, Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health. This article was presented in an invited paper at the 1993 National Convention of the American Psychological Association, Division 24, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.