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Regarding the Mind, Naturally

Author : Marcin Milkowski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865680
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Regarding the Mind, Naturally written by Marcin Milkowski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly developing approach to philosophy, with naturalised methodologies being applied across all the philosophical disciplines. One of the areas naturalism has been focussing upon is the mind, traditionally viewed as a topic hard to reconcile with the naturalistic worldview. A number of questions have been pursued in this context. What is the place of the mind in the world? How should we study the mind as a natural phenomenon? What is the significance of cognitive science research for philosophical debates? In this book, philosophical questions about the mind are asked in the context of recent developments in cognitive science, evolutionary theory, psychology, and the project of naturalisation. Much of the focus is upon what we have learned by studying natural mental mechanisms as well as designing artificial ones. In the case of natural mental mechanisms, this includes consideration of such issues as the significance of deficits in these mechanisms for psychiatry. The significance of the evolutionary context for mental mechanisms as well as questions regarding rationality and wisdom is also explored. Mechanistic and functional models of the mind are used to throw new light on discussions regarding issues of explanation, reduction and the realisation of mental phenomena. Finally, naturalistic approaches are used to look anew at such traditional philosophical issues as the correspondence of mind to world and presuppositions of scientific research.

The Natural History of the Mind

Author : Gordon Rattray Taylor
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of the Mind written by Gordon Rattray Taylor and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1981 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mind's Eye

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307594556
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Eye written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.

Natural Theories of Mind

Author : Andrew Whiten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Natural Theories of Mind written by Andrew Whiten and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Laboratory of the Mind

Author : James Robert Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134865791
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Laboratory of the Mind written by James Robert Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. This volume is the first book-length investigation of thought experiments. Starting with Galileo's argument on falling bodies, Brown describes numerous examples of the most influential thought experiments from the history of science. Following this introduction to the subject, some substantial and provocative claims are made, the principle being that some thought experiments should be understood in the same way that platonists understand mathematical activity: as an intellectual grasp of an independently existing abstract realm. With its clarity of style and structure, The Laboratory of the Mind will find readers among all philosophers of science as well as scientists who have puzzled over how thought experiments work.

A Place for Consciousness

Author : Gregg Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195168143
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book A Place for Consciousness written by Gregg Rosenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rosenberg introduces a new paradigm called Liberal Naturalism for thinking about what causation is, about the natural world, and about how to create a detailed model to go along with the new paradigm. Arguing that experience is part of the categorical foundations of causality, he shows that within this new paradigm there is a place for something essentially like consciousness in all its traditional mysterious respects."--BOOK JACKET.

Society Of Mind

Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671657135
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Society Of Mind written by Marvin Minsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988-03-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computing Methodologies -- Artificial Intelligence.

Natural History of the Mind

Author : William R. Sickles
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560725169
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Natural History of the Mind written by William R. Sickles and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a simple explanation of how the mind evolved. One of the many interesting facts emerging from this study is that vision appeared long before there was any brain of significance. Perception therefore had to be direct awareness of forms, patterning, smells, and so on. Survival depended on sensory input being an immediate representation of reality. The world as seen could not have been something pieced together and mulled over in a brain which didn't exist. Memory and learning are said to occur at a molecular level for much the same reasons. Today's social insects exhibit enormously complex behaviour, yet their brains are microscopic. All such facts, gleaned from both the past and present, have a major impact upon theories about how our own minds operate.

Mind Over Medicine

Author : Lissa Rankin
Publisher : Hay House
ISBN 13 : 1401939996
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Mind Over Medicine written by Lissa Rankin and published by Hay House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents evidence from medical journals that beliefs, thoughts, and feelings can cure the body and shows readers how to apply this knowledge in their own lives. -- provided by publisher.

Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP

Author : Ingo Swann
Publisher : Swann-Ryder Productions, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1949214389
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP written by Ingo Swann and published by Swann-Ryder Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2018-09-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this milestone book, Ingo Swann guides the reader through revolutionary techniques he developed and tested in thousands of experiments, with startling results, for tapping ESP potential. His exciting new concepts of “mind mound,” “mind manifestation,” and the “ESP core” help readers demystify ESP and link this important inner reality to what is already known about dreams, memory, quantum physics, and human creativity. Swann shows how to become more receptive to the “deeper self” and make contact with the hidden reality in which ESP operates.

The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind

Author : Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834845695
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind written by Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the collected works of the modern Tibetan master Khangsar Tenpa’i Wangchuk is the root text and commentary on the Dzogchen tantra called The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind, a verse text on the direct practices to realize the nature of mind taught within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a modern commentary on a Dzogchen tantra titled The Natural Freedom and Openness of the Mind, covering the practices of trekcho, thogal, and bardo. This tantra is a mind terma, or treasure, of the early modern terton, or treasure revealer, Deshek Lingpa (1842–1907), and incarnation of Yudra Nyingpo, a student of Yeshe Tsogyal, preeminent female consort of Padmasambhava, through whom the transmission lineage of this teaching is said to descend. The commentary presents the approach to enlightenment taught in this tradition. These instructions are considered advanced and secret, to be taught only to those who have received transmission from a qualified master. For the curious reader outside of the tradition, this book offers a clear and concise introduction to way the Nyingma tradition frames Buddhist cosmology, mind, liberation, and prayer.

The Mind in Nature

Author : C. B. Martin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614602
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Mind in Nature written by C. B. Martin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical. C. B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of 'ontologically serious' metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that 'all things that exist are only particulars', and argues that properties are powerful qualities. He also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of causation, intentionality, consciousness, and the mind-body problem. Martin emphasizes the importance of non-conscious 'vegetative' systems, which provide clear examples of intentionality in the form of representational use. The slide from representational use to consciousness involves a change in the material of use, but not the form of representation. A concluding chapter provides an argument for the view that an ontology of particular substances and properties leads ineluctably to monism: the bus we board with Locke takes us directly to the world of Spinoza and Einstein. Along the way, we are led to understand the nature of minds and conscious states of mind in a way that avoids both reductionism (the idea that mental is reducible to the non-mental) and dualism (the idea that mental substances or properties differ dramatically from physical substances and properties).

The Mind of Man: Being a Natural System of Mental Philosophy

Author : Alfred Smee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338524773X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Mind of Man: Being a Natural System of Mental Philosophy written by Alfred Smee and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

The Natural Mind

Author : Andrew Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395406236
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Natural Mind written by Andrew Weil and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mind and Cosmos

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199919755
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Mind and Cosmos written by Thomas Nagel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

Wonders of the Natural Mind

Author : Tenzin Wangyal
Publisher : New Age Books
ISBN 13 : 9788178221915
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Wonders of the Natural Mind written by Tenzin Wangyal and published by New Age Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Will Be Of Great Help To Readers Wishing To Find A Clear Explanation Of The Bon Tradition Of Tibet Especially With Regard To Its Presentation Of The Teachings Of Dzogchen.

Changing Mind: Transitions In Natural And Artificial Environments

Author : Franco F Orsucci
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814488372
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Changing Mind: Transitions In Natural And Artificial Environments written by Franco F Orsucci and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies complexity theory to cognitive science, and the result is a transformation of this field. It proposes a biophysical theory of human relations, attempting to expand all its implications (for research and theory). It presents the potential clinical applications of this theory in neuroscience and clinical psychology — a general theory of mind change.