Consciousness & Thought
epub |eng | 2013-07-08 | Author:Polly Morland [Morland, Polly]

CHAPTER SIX MAN (II) J’ai vécu.* ABBÉ SIEYÈS, when asked what he had done during the French Revolution IMAGINE THIS. YOU ARE STANDING IN THE DESERT. YOU ARE an eighteen-year-old ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought April 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Bayne, Tim [Bayne, Tim]

3. A child’s gängelwagen Chapter 5 ‘They don’t think like we do’ Once there was a man of Chu’u selling shields and halberds. In praising his shields he said, ‘My ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought March 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Bruno Snell

To stand up for one’s own country, to fight for interests transcending the welfare of the individual: this is the advice of Callinus, and it carries special conviction because of ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Epicurus & Daniel Klein & George K. Strodach [Epicurus & Klein, Daniel & Strodach, George K.]

L5 = Herod. 57 Lucretius points up the absurdity of the infinite divisibility of matter still further by showing that on this assumption there would be no difference between the ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deacon W. [W., Deacon, Terrence]

This complementarity of morphodynamic processes can produce far more than merely the creation of a kind of molecular bottle. Their reciprocity produces a special kind of emergent stability, unavailable to ...
( Category: Phenomenology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1971-03-26 | Author:Ernest Becker

The Six Common Human Problems 1. What is the relation of man to nature? That is, what are we supposed to get out of nature, and how do we relate ...
( Category: Modern March 27,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-05-16 | Author:Roy F. Baumeister [Baumeister, Roy F.]

The Brain on Autopilot Imagine, for a moment, that you are Henry Stanley awaking on a particularly inauspicious morning. You emerge from your tent in the Ituri rain forest. It’s ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Rudolph E. Tanzi [Chopra, Deepak]

The Intuitive Phase of the Brain Your intellect is part of your birthright, which includes an insatiable need for meaning. You inherited intuition out of a different need that is ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rebecca Solnit

Part III LIVES OF THE STREETS * * * * * * There are few greater delights than to walk up and down them in the evening alone with thousands ...
( Category: Running & Jogging March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Michel Foucault [Foucault, Michel]

*These three “arts of governing” were often likened to one another, as arts that demanded a knowledge and prudence attuned to circumstances; they were also comparable because they were knowledges ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought March 26,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2009-03-02 | Author:Metzinger, Thomas [Metzinger, Thomas]

At the same time, the dream self creates intense emotional experiences—some aspects of the self are clearly stronger in the dream tunnel than in the tunnel of waking consciousness. Anyone ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett

4. THE POWERS OF THE JOYCEAN MACHINE According to our sketch, there is competition among many concurrent contentful events in the brain, and a select subset of such events “win.” ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Terrence W. Deacon

AUTOGENS This complementarity of morphodynamic processes can produce far more than merely the creation of a kind of molecular bottle. Their reciprocity produces a special kind of emergent stability, unavailable ...
( Category: Phenomenology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Margolis & Laurence

194 Jean M. Mandler Figure 11.1. The models of birds and planes that 9-month-olds successfully categorize Fivush, and Reznick 1987). This test is a developmental precursor to the sorting tests ...
( Category: Metaphysics March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Douglas R. Hofstadter

Entwined Feedback Loops To explore in a concrete fashion the idea of two strange loops coexisting in one head, let’s start with a mild variation on our old TV metaphor. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )