Getting back into physics

Try the journal Mind Over Matter. But you have to submit your paper by telekinesis, or it will be rejected right off the bat. :slight_smile:

Only on the Dope!

Bravo! Well played Good Sir.

I think JCS is still a very reasonable journal (their website, though, seems quite frustrating to navigate, but maybe it’s just network issues). Neuroscience is, of course, kind of the hot thing—lots of potential for interesting new discoveries, mainly because we still understand so little about it.

And by the way, seeing as you’re interested in questions of mind in terms of quantum mechanics, if you haven’t read them, I can really recommend Michael Lockwood’s Mind, Brain, and the Quantum, David Z. Albert’s Quantum Mechanics and Experience, and Jeffrey Barrett’s The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds.

Lockwood’s book is the most philosophical in outlook, with a focus on the mind/body problem; his interpretation of QM is a many-minds variant. Albert considers many different interpretations, and (often quite amusingly) highlights their consequences for experience. Don’t be put off by the very colloquial tone, both the physics and the philosophy is sound! Finally, Barrett’s book is sort of an informal sequel to Albert’s, with a stronger focus on many-worlds and related interpretations.

…No, in the real world, too! :wink:

Lockwood rings a bell, but I don’t have any books by him at the moment. I must have read some of his work online at some point or someone else has referenced him. I’ll check out those books though. Thanks for the recommendations!

I’m leaning towards enrolling on the OU masters course but starting next spring. It would be too much upheaval for me to start a degree at the same time as my son. I also have to negotiate with my wife as she also wants to go back into education on a part time basis. She already has a masters equivalent and so will probably go straight to PhD. There’s going to be some competition to see who can become a doctor first. I like it!