Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 9780393348781
ISBN-13 : 0393348784
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by : Daniel C. Dennett

One of the world's leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments. Includes 77 of Dennett's most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders.O

The Mystical

The Mystical
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : 9781329694453
ISBN-13 : 1329694457
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mystical by : David Lane

This collection of unique articles focuses on the mystical dimension in physics, evolution, and neuroscience. Includes visual essays on unknowingness and rational explanations for the paranormal.

Consciousness

Consciousness
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 0198520905
ISBN-13 : 9780198520900
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Consciousness by : Jeffrey Alan Gray

How does conscious experience arise out of the functioning of the human brain? How is it related to the behaviour that it accompanies? How does the perceived world relate to the real world? Between them, these three questions constitute what is commonly known as the Hard Problem of consciousness. Despite vast knowledge of the relationship between brain and behaviour, and rapid advances in our knowledge of how brain activity correlates with conscious experience, the answers to all three questions remain controversial, even mysterious. This important new book analyses these core issues and reviews the evidence from both introspection and experiment. To many its conclusions will be surprising and even unsettling: · The entire perceived world is constructed by the brain. The relationship between the world we perceive and the underlying physical reality is not as close as we might think. · Much of our behaviour is accomplished with little or no participation from conscious experience. · Our conscious experience of our behaviour lags the behaviour itself by around a fifth of a second - we become aware of what we do only after we have done it. · The lag in conscious experience applies also to the decision to act - we only become aware of our decisions after they have been formed. · The self is as much a creation of the brain as is the rest of the perceived world. Written by a leading scientist, this analysis of how conscious experience relates to brain and behaviour is accessible and compelling. It will have major implications for our understanding of human nature.

Federal Trade Commission Decisions

Federal Trade Commission Decisions
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 2212
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015038812486
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Federal Trade Commission Decisions by : United States. Federal Trade Commission

The Ecological Brain

The Ecological Brain
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781003830351
ISBN-13 : 1003830358
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ecological Brain by : Luis H. Favela

The Ecological Brain is the first book of its kind, using complexity science to integrate the seemingly disparate fields of ecological psychology and neuroscience. The book develops a unique framework for unifying investigations and explanations of mind that span brain, body, and environment: the NeuroEcological Nexus Theory (NExT). Beginning with an introduction to the history of the fields, the author provides an assessment of why ecological psychology and neuroscience are commonly viewed as irreconcilable methods for investigating and explaining cognition, intelligent behavior, and the systems that realize them. The book then progresses to its central aim: presenting a unified investigative and explanatory framework offering concepts, methods, and theories applicable across neural and ecological scales of investigation. By combining the core principles of ecological psychology, neural population dynamics, and synergetics under a unified complexity science approach, NExT offers a compressive investigative framework to explain and understand neural, bodily, and environmental contributions to perception-action and other forms of intelligent behavior and thought. The book progresses the conversation around the role of brains in ecological psychology, as well as bodies and environments in neuroscience. It is essential reading for all students of ecological psychology, perception, cognitive sciences, and neuroscience, as well as anyone interested in the history and philosophy of the brain/mind sciences and their state-of-the-art methods and theories.

Mind, Value, and Reality

Mind, Value, and Reality
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 9780674265936
ISBN-13 : 0674265939
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Mind, Value, and Reality by : John McDowell

This volume collects some of John McDowell's influential papers, written at various times over the last two decades. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato. A second group of papers contains more direct treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Some of the essays in the second group exploit Wittgensteinian ideas about reason in action, and they open into the third group of papers, which contains readings of central elements in Wittgenstein's difficult later work. A fourth group deals with issues in the philosophy of mind and with questions about personal identity and the special character of first-personal thought and speech.

Interpretive Social Science

Interpretive Social Science
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0520058364
ISBN-13 : 9780520058361
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Interpretive Social Science by : Paul Rabinow

Essays on the subject of social science

Is The Universe An App? Exploring the Physics of Awareness

Is The Universe An App? Exploring the Physics of Awareness
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 159
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ISBN-10 : 9781565438033
ISBN-13 : 1565438035
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Is The Universe An App? Exploring the Physics of Awareness by : Andrea Diem-Lane

The idea that the world is an illusion which betrays its real origin has a long tradition and can be found in the writings of Hindu rishis, early Greek philosophers, and Christian gnostics. What is perhaps surprising is to find such a rich literature on the subject in neuroscience and quantum physics. The latest, and perhaps most provocative, idea to gain some currency in varying scientific disciplines is the hypothesis that the universe is the result of a computational simulation and, as such, is an incredibly rich and detailed illusion which has ultimately tricked us into believing otherwise.

Collagen Biografts for Tunable Drug Delivery

Collagen Biografts for Tunable Drug Delivery
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 116
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ISBN-10 : 9783030638177
ISBN-13 : 3030638170
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Collagen Biografts for Tunable Drug Delivery by : Rucha Joshi

This book reviews collagen-based biomaterials that have been applied broadly to tissue engineering and local drug delivery applications and lays out a landscape for developing a multifunctional biograft material from collagen polymers. The book also discusses current shortcomings in collagen based drug delivery opportunities, including poor mechanical properties, rapid proteolytic degradation, and cursory control over physical properties and molecular release profiles. Finally, a review of application of the collagen biograft materials for promoting neovascularization and tissue regeneration is presented, using examples of established in-vivo chicken egg chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model. Use of heparin for affinity-based vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) retention in collagen constructs is also discussed for promoting neovascularization. Reviews state-of-the-art strategies for drug incorporation and retention in collagen​; Covers collagen based material applications for improving vascularization and tissue regeneration; Illustrates how to tailor collagen architecture for soft tissue engineering and controlled drug delivery.