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Free Will: A User's Guide

Author : Shawn Flecken
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257832190
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Free Will: A User's Guide written by Shawn Flecken and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world that offers a seemingly endless parade of trivial diversions, more and more peple are beginning to sense that something has been overlooked in their lives. Something important is missing. In a hyper-real world, we have lost touch with who we truly are -- not which labels we wear, what programs we watch, what titles we carry, or what clubs we belong to, but what we truly desire, waht we hope to achieve as conscious human beings. We long for purpose. We long to be relevant. We long to be empowered. But none of the external trappings and abstractions that society offers can bring us what we're really looking for, because what we truly want cannot be found outside ourselves. We need to look within, and reclaim our power to create the world we want to live in. We need to liberate our Free Will ... And this is the book that will show you how to do it.

Free Will

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197574238
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Alfred R. Mele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did you do a moment ago? What will you do after you read this? Are you deciding as we speak, or is something else going on in your brain or elsewhere in your body that is determining your actions? Stopping to think this way can freeze us in our tracks. A lot in the world feels far beyond our control--the last thing we need is to question whether we make our own choices in the way we usually assume we do. Questions about free will are so major and consequential that we may prefer not to think about them at all, lest we feel completely lost and unsure of everything we thought we knew! Free Will: An Opinionated Guide offers a clear and straightforward introduction to this vexing topic. Drawing on decades of extensive research in philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology, internationally recognized authority on free will Alfred R. Mele explains and explores the most prominent theories, puzzles, and arguments in free will, all the while presenting his own distinctive take on the topic. like determinism, neuroscience, and control."--

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191620688
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning written by Ray Jackendoff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language. Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.

A User's Guide to the Brain

Author : John J. Ratey, M.D.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375701079
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to the Brain written by John J. Ratey, M.D. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ratey, bestselling author and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, lucidly explains the human brain’s workings, and paves the way for a better understanding of how the brain affects who we are. Ratey provides insight into the basic structure and chemistry of the brain, and demonstrates how its systems shape our perceptions, emotions, and behavior. By giving us a greater understanding of how the brain responds to the guidance of its user, he provides us with knowledge that can enable us to improve our lives. In A User’s Guide to the Brain, Ratey clearly and succinctly surveys what scientists now know about the brain and how we use it. He looks at the brain as a malleable organ capable of improvement and change, like any muscle, and examines the way specific motor functions might be applied to overcome neural disorders ranging from everyday shyness to autism. Drawing on examples from his practice and from everyday life, Ratey illustrates that the most important lesson we can learn about our brains is how to use them to their maximum potential.

Consciousness

Author : Adam Zeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300104974
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness written by Adam Zeman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the nature of consciousness This engaging and readable book provides an introduction to consciousness that does justice both to the science and to the philosophy of consciousness, that is, the mechanics of the mind and the experience of awareness. The book opens with a general discussion of the brain and of consciousness itself. Then, exploring the areas of brain science most likely to illuminate the basis of awareness, Zeman focuses on the science of sleep and waking and on the science of vision. He describes healthy states and disorders--epilepsy, narcolepsy, blindsight and hallucinations after stroke--that provide insights into the capacity for consciousness and into its contents. And he tracks the evolution of the brain, the human species, and human culture and surveys the main current scientific theories of awareness, pioneering attempts to explain how the brain gives rise to experience. Zeman concludes by examining philosophical arguments about the nature of consciousness. A practicing neurologist, he animates his text with examples from the behavioral and neurological disorders of his patients and from the expanding mental worlds of young children, including his own. His book is an accessible and enlightening explanation of why we are conscious.

The Oxford Handbook of Free Will

Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195399692
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Free Will written by Robert Kane and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to current work on free will and related subjects, the focus is on writings of the past 40 years, in which there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional issues about the freedom of the will in the light of new developments in the sciences, philosophy and humanistic studies.

Determined to be free

Author : Ethan Bleeker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Determined to be free written by Ethan Bleeker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Free Will

Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195178548
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Free Will written by Robert Kane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive reference work that provides an exhaustive guide to scholarship on the perennial problem of free will.

A User's Guide to Therapy: What to Expect and How You Can Benefit

Author : Tamara L. Kaiser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393733890
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to Therapy: What to Expect and How You Can Benefit written by Tamara L. Kaiser and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to understanding and getting the most out of therapy. This book is for clients—and for clinicians to recommend to their clients—who want to enhance the process of psychotherapy and get the most out of a therapeutic relationship. Kaiser writes in a friendly, accessible tone, and explains what exactly therapy is and how it works, including the beginning, middle, and ending stages of the therapy process. She elaborates on the dynamics of the relationship between therapist and client, including such issues as power, boundaries, trust, and termination, and describes the four common factors of change: the client, the therapeutic relationship, hope, and technique. Furthermore, she explains the basic aspects of brain development and how psychotherapy physically changes the brain. This book familiarizes potential clients with four major therapeutic approaches—psychodynamic, developmental, cognitive– behavioral, and humanistic—and explains the characteristics of individual, family, and group therapy. Through case studies, Kaiser reveals the healing potential of the therapeutic relationship, including the experience of being deeply understood by and coming to trust a therapist. Kaiser offers much food for thought, as well as compassion, wisdom, encouragement, and practical suggestions for those who choose to take this fascinating and fruitful journey.

Power

Author : Julie Diamond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996660303
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Power written by Julie Diamond and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using power well is more than a matter of good intentions. The path toward ethical, authentic, and effective use of power starts with this book. Combining cutting-edge psychological theory with practical exercises, real-world accounts of leadership challenges, and the author's personal stories from her career as a facilitator and coach, it aims to develop the reader's external authority to navigate high power roles and responsibilities, and to find personal power within.--Publisher

The Bill of Rights

Author : Linda R. Monk
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316417750
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Bill of Rights written by Linda R. Monk and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens. In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights. Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a national civil rights leader; Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner whose handwritten petition to the Supreme Court expanded the right to counsel; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old whose protest of the Vietnam War established free speech rights for students; Michael Hardwick, a bartender who fought for privacy after police entered his bedroom unlawfully; Suzette Kelo, a nurse who opposed the city's takeover of her working-class neighborhood; and Simon Tam, a millennial whose 10-year trademark battle for his band "The Slants" ended in a unanimous Supreme Court victory. Such people prove that, in the words of Judge Learned Hand, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court, can save it." Exploring the history, scope, and meaning of the first ten amendments-as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which nationalized them and extended new rights of equality to all-The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide is a powerful examination of the values that define American life and the tools that every citizen needs.

Contra Mundum

Author : Adam Weishaupt
Publisher : Magus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1207 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contra Mundum written by Adam Weishaupt and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 1207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie." – Dr Stockmann (in Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People) Contra Mundum is a handbook for all those who think there is something fundamentally wrong with the world. The ancient Gnostics claimed that the world was actually created and ruled by the Devil (the Demiurge), hence why everything is so hideous, unfair and horrific. Modern Gnostics (Illuminists) assert that the problem with the world is that it's ruled by the forces of unreason rather than reason, by Mythos rather than Logos, by silly story-based religions rather than mathematics, philosophy and science.

Your User's Manual

Author : Anderson Silver
Publisher : ISBN Canada
ISBN 13 : 1999527305
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Your User's Manual written by Anderson Silver and published by ISBN Canada. This book was released on 2018-11-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the point? What is the purpose of life? Why must I suffer the stress, and anxiety that comes with it? Why does it all seem so hard and so unfair? If you have asked yourself any of these questions, then you have found the book you are looking for. There are answers to all of these questions and Anderson Silver has compiled teachings from Stoicism and other schools of thought in Your User's Manual. This refreshing collection not only gives the reader much sought after answers, but also provides the tools for finding purpose, and living an anxiety-free life in the modern world. Meant as a light read that the reader can come back to and meditate on periodically, Anderson has done a wonderful job of condensing fundamental teachings, making Your User's Manual a straightforward read in answering life's most pressing questions and recognizing what is truly important.

ACARS - A Users Guide

Author : Lionel K. Anderson MSc
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445788470
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book ACARS - A Users Guide written by Lionel K. Anderson MSc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) is a digital datalink system for transmission of short,and relatively simple messages between aircraft and ground stations using the airband VHF radio link. The message protocol was designed by Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (ARINC) to replace their VHF voice service and deployed in 1978 using telex type format. SITA, a multinational information technology company, later augmented their worldwide data network by adding ground radio stations to provide ACARS service.

Obfuscation

Author : Finn Brunton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262029731
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Obfuscation written by Finn Brunton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should. With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it. Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users' search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies.

Free Will & Determinism Classroom Set

Author : Peter Baron
Publisher : PushMe Press
ISBN 13 : 9781910038024
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Free Will & Determinism Classroom Set written by Peter Baron and published by PushMe Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Read a Novel

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466859997
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Novel written by John Sutherland and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do we still know how to read a novel?" John Sutherland, Chairman of the 2005 Booker Prize Committee, asks. His disheartened answer is an unequivocal, "No." But Sutherland has not given up hope. With acerbic wit and intellect, he traces the history of what it used to mean to be well-read and tells readers what it still means today. Using this delightful book as a means to an end, he reminds readers how the delicate charms of fiction can be at once wonderful and inspired and infuriating. On one level this is a book about novels: how they work, what they're about, what makes them good or bad, and how to talk about them. At a deeper level, this is a book in which one of the most intimate tête-à-têtes is described—one in which a reader meets a novel. Will a great love affair begin? Will the rendezvous end in disappointment? Who can say? In order for the relationship to take its appropriate course all the details must be clearly acknowledged and understood for their complexities: plot, point of view, character, style, pace, first and last sentences, and even beauty. Still, Sutherland knows a true understanding of fiction is more than a flirtation with text and style—it is a business. Taking his readers on a trip to the bookshop, he helps them judge a book by its cover based on design and color, wondering aloud what genre might be best, even going so far as to analyze one of the latest American bestsellers to further help the buying reader choose the novel that is right for him or her. In a book that is as wry and humorous as it is learned and opinionated, John Sutherland tells you everything you always wanted to know about how to read fiction better than you do now (but, were afraid to ask).