Mind category: 7783 books
by Jonathan Westphal
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
An introduction to the mind–body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.
Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of modern and contemporary philosophy: the mind-body problem. The brain is physical. If the mind is...
Mind Empowerment
Unleash the Power of Your Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Enlightenment of Mind for Greater Intelligence
Enter the realm of your mind where human intelligence is stored. Those with the superior mind are always able to acquire knowledge, analyze information, and access thoughts much more readily than those who are less mentally empowered.
People’s...
The New Science of the Mind
From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head."
There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception...
The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization
The Quantum Evolution of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
How the global mind drives the evolution of both consciousness and civilization
• Explains how our brains receive consciousness from the global mind, which upgrades human consciousness according to a pre-set divine time frame
• Reveals how the Mayan Calendar provides a blueprint...
by David Gelernter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
A “rock star” (New York Times) of the computing world provides a radical new work on the meaning of human consciousness.
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...
Fasting the Mind
Spiritual Exercises for Psychic Detox
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Combines cognitive psychology with Zen, Taoist, and Vedic practices to empty the mind
• Explains how eliminating external stimulation can alleviate stress and anxiety for a calmer state of mind
• Details meditation practices, such as open-awareness meditation, contemplation of Zen...
The Mind Club
Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
**“Compelling, and so beautifully written…’The Mind Club’ deftly brings the most up-to-date research about other minds to readers of all backgrounds. It may cause you to think differently about crime and punishment, about business transactions and health care, and even about the upcoming elections....
The Mystery of Mind
A Systematic Account of the Human Mind Toward Understanding Its Own Realization
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
The Mystery of Mind is a systematic and critical introduction to the philosophy of mind. At issue is what is known as the mind-body problem. How does a body support a mind with its brain?
Pivotal to the book is the author's working out of an adverbial concept of mind that is user-friendly to...
Mindapps
Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
An exploration of “mind design” technologies and practices--mindapps--that boost intellectual capacity and enable new ways of thought and action
• Reveals how mindapps transform the patterns of our mind-body complex and help generate new ideas by enabling access to new mind states
•...
Mind Unmasked
A Political Phenomenology of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The human mind has proven uniquely capable of unraveling untold mysteries, and yet, the mind is fundamentally challenged when it turns back on itself to ask what it itself is. How do we conceive of mind in this postmodern world; how can we use philosophical anthropology to understand mind and its...
Beyond Reduction
Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. This explanatory gap between mind and brain has thus...
by Darlene Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Is there a connection between what we think and how we feel? Does the mind talk to the body and the body to the mind? What about negative childhood experiences? Can early life experiences impact the state of our physical, mental, and emotional health decades later? The exciting field of psychoneuroimmunology...
by Mike Hockney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
One hundred percent of scientists think that Einstein’s special theory of relativity is correct. One hundred percent of scientists are wrong. Isn’t that astounding? Why is it so hard for scientists to see the blatant errors in Einstein’s logic?The central reason for the failure of Einstein’s...
Berkeley's Puzzle
What Does Experience Teach Us?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees, etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them...