Secrets of the Mind: A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken Identity

In Secrets of the Mind we arrive at a vision of the world as it may co me to be seen by a future science. Sand, sea water, air, and the atoms from which such materials are made are now well understood by science . These elements of our world, physicists and chemists tell us, are di fferent forms of quantum energy. But what of our personal feelings, ou r sensations and emotions? Science tells us that these too must be for ms of quantum energy if they evolved. But science is only beginning to explain how. A.G. Cairns-Smith is a Reader in Chemistry at the Univer sity of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.