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The Big Idea: Werner Loewenstein’s ‘Physics in Mind’

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Former Columbia University physiology and biophysics professor Werner Loewenstein tells us what physics and quantum computing have to do with the brain in his new book, Physics in Mind.

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What's your big idea?

How cells in our body transfer information to each other has been an old fixation of mine. Here, in Physics in Mind, I address the question of how information is transferred inside our most complex organ, the brain.

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