A Physicist's View of Matter and Mind

Part I. The Nature of Physical Law: A Bird's Eye View of Our Quest; An Epistemic Hunt for Scientific Truth; The Laws of Nature and the Supremacy of Symmetry; Maxwell's Magical Trinity - Electricity, Magnetism and Light; The Theory of Relativity; The Quantum World and 'Reality'; Entanglement, Measurement and Quantum Paradoxes; Many Particle Systems and the Classical Limit; Energy, Entropy and Emergent Properties; Part II. Complex Systems and Consiousness: Bio-Molecules, the Sub-Slime of Astrochemistry; The Cell as the Basic Unit of Life; Specialized Cells for Sight, Insight, and Information; Exotic, Quantum Explanations of Consciousness; Addressing the Enigmatic Questions.