Search Results
Showing
1 - 20
of 266
query time: 0.05s
Author:
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
A leading philosopher offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind that explores the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture, demonstrating the role of culture in installing memes, including language, in the mind. -- Publisher
Author:
Publisher:
Paragon House
Pub. Date:
[2009]
Language:
English
Description:
"Consciousness is explored as a living stream of lucid experience composed of the essence of the moments of our lives. Grounded in Ken Wilber's model, consciousness is explained from many points of view: its historical evolution, its growth in the individual, its mystical dimensions, and the meaning of enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.
Author:
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
"From one of the world's leading neuroscientists--a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness and its relation to life. In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the necessary tools to solve its...
Author:
Series:
Publisher:
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date:
[2013]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power. By fully embracing and practicing...
Author:
Publisher:
Waterside Press
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
Description:
Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down. In An End to Upside Down Thinking, Mark Gober traces his journey -- he explores compelling scientific evidence from a diverse set of disciplines, ranging from psychic phenomena, to near-death experiences, to quantum physics and beyond.
Author:
Publisher:
Basic Books
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book’s heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Koch investigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems. Enabled by such tools, Koch reveals...
Author:
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the now-legendary computer scientist and AI authority David Gelernter to the discipline in the first place. As a student and young researcher in the 1980s, Gelernter hoped to build a program with a dial marked "focus." At maximum "focus," the program would "think" rationally, formally,...
Author:
Publisher:
Watkins Publishing
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Daniel Odier's approach to joy is based in part on his study of Chinese Zen and is refreshingly straightforward. All it requires is a willingness to disengage from our habitual ways of thinking, and practise being present throughout the day.
Author:
Publisher:
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Description:
What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we? In this accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a title.