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The Crucible of Consciousness

Author : Zoltan Torey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262261219
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Consciousness written by Zoltan Torey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself. In The Crucible of Consciousness, Zoltan Torey offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. He traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works. He identifies what it is that separates the human's self-reflective consciousness from mere animal awareness, and he maps its neural and linguistic underpinnings. And he argues, controversially, that the neural technicalities of reflective awareness can be neither algorithmic nor spiritual—neither a computer nor a ghost in the machine. The human mind is unique; it is not only the epicenter of our knowledge but also the outer limit of our intellectual reach. Not to solve the riddle of the self-aware mind, writes Torey, goes against the evolutionary thrust that created it. Torey proposes a model that brings into a single focus all the elements that make up the puzzle: how the brain works, its functional components and their interactions; how language evolved and how syntax evolved out of the semantic substrate by way of neural transactions; and why the mind-endowed brain deceives itself with entelechy-type impressions. Torey first traces the language-linked emergence of the mind, the subsystem of the brain that enables it to be aware of itself. He then explores this system: how consciousness works, why it is not transparent to introspection, and what sense it makes in the context of evolution. The “consciousness revolution” and the integrative focus of neuroscience have made it possible to make concrete formerly mysterious ideas about the human mind. Torey's model of the mind is the logical outcome of this, highlighting a coherent and meaningful role for a reflectively aware humanity.

The Crucible of Consciousness

Author : Zoltan Torey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Consciousness written by Zoltan Torey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crucible of the Mind

Author : Barrie M Biven
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784623091
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of the Mind written by Barrie M Biven and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a stirring invitation to any reader who is interested in having a general sense of how the mind works and of the dominant role of mental conflict in everyday life. It is a topical reminder of the importance of Sigmund Freud the psychoanalyst, but also Freud the psychiatrist, neurologist, author and courageous natural scientist. However, this work is not a mere repetition or enumeration of Freud’s theories or descriptions of clinical cases. The book's primary purpose is to provide the reader with an introduction to important contemporary psychoanalytic ideas that modify and build on Freud’s classical theories.

The Crucible of Language

Author : Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107123917
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Language written by Vyvyan Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know and do when we communicate using language; he shows how linguistic meaning arises, where it comes from, and the way language enables us to convey the meanings that can move us to tears, or make us dizzy with delight.

The Way of the Crucible

Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615206824
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Crucible written by Robert Bartlett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our first book, Real Alchemy, provides a glimpse into the general theory and practices surrounding the Art of Alchemy as handed down in the Western World. This second work delves more deeply into "the why of the how" behind laboratory alchemy and elaborates greater detail on some of the mineral works of Alchemy both ancient and modern. Herein you will find a wealth of information concerning the practical art and science of alchemy that makes this arcane subject accessible to the modern student.

In and Out of Your Mind

Author : Dale Bick Carlson
Publisher : Bick Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9781884158278
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book In and Out of Your Mind written by Dale Bick Carlson and published by Bick Publishing House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the world of science and helps teens understand how science affects their lives.

Metaphysics, Or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real

Author : Henry Longueville Mansel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics, Or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real written by Henry Longueville Mansel and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crucible of Experience

Author : Daniel Burston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674002173
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Experience written by Daniel Burston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R. D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this brief and lucid book, Laing’s widely praised biographer distills the essence of Laing’s vision, which was religious and philosophical as well as psychological. The Crucible of Experience reveals Laing’s philosophical debts to existentialism and phenomenology in his theories of madness and sanity, family theory and family therapy. Daniel Burston offers the first detailed account of Laing’s practice as a therapist and of his relationships—often contentious—with his friends and sometime disciples. Burston carefully differentiates between Laing and “Laingians,” who were often clearer, more confident, and more simplistic than their teacher. While he examines Laing’s theories of madness, Burston focuses most provocatively on Laing’s views of sanity and normality and on his recognition, toward the end of his life, of the essential place of holiness in human experience. In a powerful last chapter, Burston shows that Laing foresaw the present commercialization of medicine and asked pointed questions about what the meaning of sanity and the future of psychotherapy in such a world could be. In this, as in other matters, Laing’s questions of a generation ago remain questions for our time.

The Crucible

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101665017
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible written by Arthur Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. "A drama of emotional power and impact" —New York Post

Global Overshoot

Author : doug cocks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461462657
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Global Overshoot written by doug cocks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system. This book compares and critiques attitudes held by people with different world views to the hypothetical prospect of large widespread falls in quality of life. It also draws insights from these two analyses to develop and suggest a philosophy of Ecohumanism to people of good will who want to think constructively about the world’s converging problems, i.e. think altruistically and ‘think like an evolving ecosystem.’

The Conscious Mind

Author : Zoltan Torey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262319314
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Conscious Mind written by Zoltan Torey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech. How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and linguistics, Torey reconstructs the sequence of events by which Homo erectus became Homo sapiens. He describes the augmented functioning that underpins the emergent mind—a new (“off-line”) internal response system with which the brain accesses itself and then forms a selection mechanism for mentally generated behavior options. This functional breakthrough, Torey argues, explains how the animal brain's “awareness” became self-accessible and reflective—that is, how the human brain acquired a conscious mind. Consciousness, unlike animal awareness, is not a unitary phenomenon but a composite process. Torey's account shows how protolanguage evolved into language, how a brain subsystem for the emergent mind was built, and why these developments are opaque to introspection. We experience the brain's functional autonomy, he argues, as free will. Torey proposes that once life began, consciousness had to emerge—because consciousness is the informational source of the brain's behavioral response. Consciousness, he argues, is not a newly acquired “quality,” “cosmic principle,” “circuitry arrangement,” or “epiphenomenon,” as others have argued, but an indispensable working component of the living system's manner of functioning.

Health And Consciousness Through Fasting And Cleansing

Author : Dr. Nibodhi Haas
Publisher : M A Center
ISBN 13 : 1680370383
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Health And Consciousness Through Fasting And Cleansing written by Dr. Nibodhi Haas and published by M A Center. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health And Consciousness Through Fasting And Cleansing Offers Numerous Techniques To Assist In Preventing Disease And Maintaining Vital Health And Longevity. These Techniques Also Promote Emotional And Mental Balance As Well As Spiritual Well-Being And Contentment. Through Regular Fasting And Cleansing, We Can Live A Balanced Life In Harmony With Nature And The Universe. Published By The Disciples Of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Affectionately Known As Mother, Or Amma The Hugging Saint.

Kundalini Consciousness

Author : J. Robin E. Harger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499071841
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Kundalini Consciousness written by J. Robin E. Harger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to describe, explain and explore the states of higher consciousness that are inevitably associated with the achievement of Enlightenment and thereby to suggest procedures that can help others to attain such insights as may be relevant for themselves.

Being Consciousness Bliss

Author : Astrid Fitzgerald
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1584205369
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Being Consciousness Bliss written by Astrid Fitzgerald and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people are looking for a deeper and richer spiritual life. They sense that there is more to their existence than the surface of life seems to offer, but they are confused and uncertain about where to look and how to begin. Being Consciousness Bliss is a rich, profound, and eminently accessible compendium of wisdom that will help orient people toward a more fruitful spiritual search. Drawing on a dazzling array of sources, including the insights of G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky as well as the spiritual traditions of the East, it gives a clear and compelling account of the true inner structure of the human being and how it may be developed to its full potential. Part One discusses the current human condition -- the "sleep" of ordinary life -- and how a person may begin to wake up from it. Part Two offers a feast of excerpts from the Perennial Philosophy -- the great wisdom tradition that underlies all cultures and religions -- to feed and nurture the growth of the soul. Part Three provides simple ways to put these insights into practice in daily life. Clear, sensible, and erudite, Being Consciousness Bliss is a resource, suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners, to be used and treasured for many years. "This is a feast of a book, spread out like a banquet of the freshest foods, served wholesomely, and presented artfully. Starting from a premise that "the aim of human life is to know who we are - to realize our Self, our true nature, and our identity with the Universal Self...," Fitzgerald's poetic and passionate prose awakens consciousness on a deep level. She helps us feel the Self, so we can begin to work with the Self. To complement her own inspired writing, she includes a section with words of wisdom from other sources, grouped by such intent as to examine suffering or to explore aspiration. In addition, there is a cornucopia of suggestions for practice, such as how to focus attention on a task, or how to listen to the sound of your own voice. Dotted with illustrations and charts to further clarify the text, this work is an invitation to a nourishing meal of self-awareness." --S.J.A., Managing Editor, NAPRA Review "Following Aldous Huxley, Astrid Fitzgerald's tireless pursuit of an inner path is sure to awaken the heart to bliss and rouse spirit to behold." --David Appelbaum, editor of Parabola Magazine "This book is equal parts wisdom, beauty, and inspiration. Astrid Fitzgerald opens the insights of the ages for anyone to follow. Highly recommended." --Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words "Astrid Fitzgerald's Being Consciousness Bliss is a well-researched, clearly written account of the essential teachings given by all the major wisdom traditions, which all teach that we are one human family." -- Sri Swami Satchidananda, Founder & Spiritual Head, Integral Yoga International /Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville

Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791098281
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arthur Miller's The Crucible written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays that examines Arthur Miller's classic drama, "The Crucible;" and contains an historical overview of the play, chronology of the life and works of the author, and introduction by Harold Bloom.

Consciousness, Reality and Value

Author : Pierfrancesco Basile
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110328380
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness, Reality and Value written by Pierfrancesco Basile and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Sprigge has been a major player on the philosophical scene contributing to discussions as diverse as consciousness, the ontology of time, personal identity, animal rights, punishment, censorship and wider issues in metaphysics, ethics and the history of philosophy. He is, however, less well known for his own highly original system of metaphysics and ethics'a synthesis of Absolute Idealism, panpsychism and utilitarianism. The contributions gathered in this volume, written by philosophers of international reputation or by acknowledged scholars in their specialized fields of inquiry, engage themes in his metaphysics and ethics and provide a critical assessment of his ideas and arguments. In a concluding essay, Sprigge answers the most significant objections raised by his critics: the final result is an engaging dialogue on the perennial and most fundamental questions of philosophy.

The Matter of Consciousness

Author : Torin Alter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198840454
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Consciousness written by Torin Alter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torin Alter presents a compelling defence of the 'knowledge argument' against physicalism, pioneered by Frank Jackson. According to physicalism, consciousness is a physical phenomenon. The knowledge argument stars Mary, who learns all objective, physical information through black-and-white media and yet acquires new information when she first sees colors for herself: information about what it is like to see in color. Based partly on that case, Jackson concludes that not all information is physical. Alter argues that the knowledge argument succeeds in refuting all standard versions of physicalism: versions on which consciousness is grounded by what objective science reveals. Alter also argues that given further, plausible assumptions, the knowledge argument leads to Russellian monism, according to which there are intrinsic properties that both constitute consciousness and underlie properties described by physics, such as mass and charge. Alter explains how the knowledge argument establishes those two conclusions and defend it against numerous objections.