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Artificial Intimacy

Author : Rob Brooks
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553854
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intimacy written by Rob Brooks and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the ways people make friends, gossip with neighbors, and grow intimate with lovers. Sex robots present the humanoid face of this technological revolution—yet although it is easy to gawk at their uncanniness, more familiar technologies based in artificial intelligence and virtual reality are insinuating themselves into human interactions. Digital lovers, virtual friends, and algorithmic matchmakers help us manage our feelings in a world of cognitive overload. Will these machines, fueled by masses of user data and powered by algorithms that learn all the time, transform the quality of human life? Artificial Intimacy offers an innovative perspective on the possibilities of the present and near future. The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider the interaction of new technologies and fundamental human behaviors. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do. Brooks combines an understanding of core human traits from evolutionary biology with analysis of how cultural, economic, and technological contexts shape the ways people express them. Beyond the technology, he asks what the implications of artificial intimacy will be for how we understand ourselves.

The Evolution of Intimacy : A Personal Story

Author : Karren Kae Kearney
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1642376248
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Intimacy : A Personal Story written by Karren Kae Kearney and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is one small unexpected journey at a time moving us towards a destiny we could never imagine. The Evolution of Intimacy : A Personal Story is one such journey, The book is an account of taking a leap of faith, with a chance online meeting on a dating site in October, and moving in together in December having only met once. The book details the results of following one's intuition and heart, and moving over three hundred miles to create a new life. It's a story showing how, against all odds, faith and trust changed the fate of two unsuspecting people. It touches on difficult issues of love, marriages, divorces, death, adult children, his and hers, ex-spouses, couples counseling, health, finances and everything in between. The book offers hope, insights and inspiration for anyone struggling with or in a dysfunctional relationship, or was raised in an alcoholic environment, or is an alcoholic, an addict, a compulsive over-eater, or food addict , a sex and love addict, co-dependent, or in a relationship with anyone with an addictions or mental illness. I hope you find the story as inspirational as I did living it.

An Intimate History of Humanity

Author : Theodore Zeldin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448161991
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book An Intimate History of Humanity written by Theodore Zeldin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey 'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily Telegraph This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other as Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope; how they have learnt to have interesting conversations; how some have acquired an immunity to loneliness; how new forms of love and desire have been invented; how respect has become more valued than power; how the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed; why even the privileged are often gloomy; and why parents and children are changing their minds about what they want from each other.

Intimacy in Emptiness

Author : Janet Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644113619
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Intimacy in Emptiness written by Janet Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound inside experience of the transformative potential of the Discipline of Authentic Movement • Offers insights from the author’s 50-year study of the inner witness developing toward compassionate presence, intuitive knowing, and direct experience of the divine • Illuminates how commitment to this mystical practice supports participation in evolving consciousness within groups, grounded in personal healing The Discipline of Authentic Movement, grounded in the relationship between a mover and a witness, connects us directly with the inner wisdom of the body. In the emptiness of the movement space, a mover’s inner experience--feelings, sensations, images, and thoughts--become outer, unchoreographed gestures. Seen by their inner witness in the presence of an outer witness, the mover steps into the intimate mystery of who they are becoming. Sharing vivid examples from founder of the Discipline of Authentic Movement Janet Adler’s 50-year inquiry, Intimacy in Emptiness brings her essential writings, including new and previously unpublished work, to a wider audience, guiding readers through the multiple layers of this experiential and innovative approach to embodied consciousness. Her writings illuminate the path of the developing inner witness, transforming toward compassionate presence, conscious speech, and intuitive knowing. This contemporary mystical practice, a breakthrough in the field of consciousness studies, includes personal healing as an essential base from which direct experience of the numinous can safely emerge, be witnessed, and become integrated into the fullness of the whole person. The emergence of the unique gesture and voice of each individual develops toward participation in consciously embodied groups. A new form of intelligence moves through collective bodies in service of healing in our world.

Time and Intimacy

Author : Joel B. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135655014
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Time and Intimacy written by Joel B. Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the role of time in relationships, with a focus on the transpersonal dimension of intimacy and the temporal aspects of relationships. For scholars and students in personal relationships, psych of religion, family studies, intimacy.

The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction

Author : Michael R. Kauth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000226522
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction written by Michael R. Kauth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction presents an evolutionary history of romantic love, male-female pair-bonding, same-sex friendship, and sexual attraction, drawing on sexuality research, gay and lesbian studies, history, literature, anthropology, and evolutionary science. Employing evolutionary theory as a framework, close same-sex friendship is examined as an adaptive trait that has harnessed love, affection, and sexual pleasure to navigate same-sex environments for both men and women, ultimately benefiting their reproductive success and promoting the inheritance of traits for friendship. Chapters consider the desire to form close same-sex friendships and ask if this is embedded in our biology, concluding that most humans have the capacity to form loving, meaningful, and sexual relationships with men and women. This book takes on a unique interdisciplinary approach and is essential reading for those studying and working in sexuality research, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary psychology, and gay and lesbian studies. It will also be of interest to marriage and family therapists as well as sex therapists.

Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future (with an Introduction to the Ideas of Creative Systems Theory)

Author : Charles M. Johnston MD
Publisher : ICD Press
ISBN 13 : 9780974715445
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future (with an Introduction to the Ideas of Creative Systems Theory) written by Charles M. Johnston MD and published by ICD Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Futureis the most detailed of three new future-related works by the author. It looks deeply at how the most important challenges ahead for the species will require not just better ideas, but new human capacities; in the end, an essential "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. It is written for those inter- ested in acquiring the newly sophisticated leadership abilities that we will more and more need in all parts of our lives in times ahead. The concept of Cultural Maturity makes understandable how institutional structures and beliefs that in modern times have served us well can't be the ideals and end points that we have assumed them to be. It goes on to articulate a new guiding story for our time, one able to take us equally beyond denial, cynicism, and naïve wishful thinking. This book looks deeply at the changes the concept of Cultural Maturity describes-both how they make needed new capacities possible, and how we see their beginnings in many parts of our personal and collective lives. The concept of Cultural Maturity is based on the ideas of Creative Systems Theory, a comprehensive framework for understanding change, purpose, and interrelationship in human systems. Creative Systems Theory describes how Cultural Maturity's changes are as, or more, significant than those that brought us modern democratic governance 250 years ago. It also argues that if the concept of Cultural Maturity is not basically correct, it is hard to imagine a healthy and vital human future. In addition to introducing the concept of Cultural Maturity, Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future presents important related ideas from Creative Systems Theory. Creative Systems Theory represents an example of culturally mature conception and offers a rich array of conceptual tools able to guide us in making the future's increasingly complex choices.

Art and Intimacy

Author : Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029599746X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Art and Intimacy written by Ellen Dissanayake and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love. It all begins with the human trait of birthing immature and helpless infants. To ensure that mothers find their demanding babies worth caring for, humans evolved to be lovable and to attune themselves to others from the moment of birth. The ways in which mother and infant respond to each other are rhythmically patterned vocalizations and exaggerated face and body movements that Dissanayake calls rhythms and sensory modes. Rhythms and modes also give rise to the arts. Because humans are born predisposed to respond to and use rhythmic-modal signals, societies everywhere have elaborated them further as music, mime, dance, and display, in rituals which instill and reinforce valued cultural beliefs. Just as rhythms and modes coordinate and unify the mother-infant pair, in ceremonies they coordinate and unify members of a group. Today we humans live in environments very different from those of our ancestors. They used ceremonies (the arts) to address matters of serious concern, such as health, prosperity, and fecundity, that affected their survival. Now we tend to dismiss the arts, to see them as superfluous, only for an elite. But if we are biologically predisposed to participate in artlike behavior, then we actually need the arts. Even -- or perhaps especially -- in our fast-paced, sophisticated modern lives, the arts encourage us to show that we care about important things.

Creative Systems Theory

Author : Charles M. Johnston
Publisher : Charles Johnston MD
ISBN 13 : 9781732219052
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Creative Systems Theory written by Charles M. Johnston and published by Charles Johnston MD. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the place to go for a deep dive into the forward-thinking, multi-faceted ideas of Creative Systems Theory. From the book's back cover: "Creative Systems Theory brings big-picture, long-term perspective to understanding who we are and why we think and act in the ways that we do. It is pertinent equally to appreciating the past, teasing apart current cultural challenges, and making sense of what a vital human future will require of us. This is the definitive work on Creative Systems Theory and its implications. "At a practical level, Creative Systems Theory provides powerful tools for making effective choices in both our personal and our collective lives. More conceptually, it makes a major contribution to the history of ideas. It clarifies how, while modern age institutions, values, and ways of thinking have served us well, they cannot be sufficient for the tasks ahead. And it offers a comprehensive approach to understanding that reflects the more mature and encompassing kind of thinking that will become more and more essential in times ahead. "This volume brings together fifty years of committed inquiry and practical application. It is part guidebook, part memoir, part compilation, and part an effort to extend Creative Systems Theory's thinking just as far into the future as is possible."

Boundaries of Touch

Author : Jean Halley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091450
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Boundaries of Touch written by Jean Halley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding to sexual abuse, Jean O'Malley Halley traces the evolution of mainstream ideas about touching between adults and children over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. Debates over when a child should be weaned and whether to allow a child to sleep in the parent's bed reveal deep differences in conceptions of appropriate adult-child contact. Boundaries of Touch shows how arguments about adult-child touch have been politicized, simplified, and bifurcated into "naturalist" and "behaviorist" viewpoints, thereby sharpening certain binary constructions such as mind/body and male/female. Halley discusses the gendering of ideas about touch that were advanced by influential social scientists and parenting experts including Benjamin Spock, Alfred C. Kinsey, and Luther Emmett Holt. She also explores how touch ideology fared within and against the post-World War II feminist movements, especially with respect to issues of breastfeeding and sleeping with a child versus using a crib. In addition to contemporary periodicals and self-help books on child rearing, Halley uses information gathered from interviews she conducted with mothers ranging in age from twenty-eight to seventy-three. Throughout, she reveals how the parent-child relationship, far from being a private or benign subject, continues as a highly contested, politicized affair of keen public interest.

Mating in Captivity

Author : Esther Perel
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060753641
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Mating in Captivity written by Esther Perel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a couples therapist, Perel examines the complexities of sustaining desire. Through case studies and lively discussion, Perel demonstrates how more exciting, playful, and even poetic sex is possible in long-term relationships. Wise, witty, and as revelatory as it is straightforward, Mating in Captivity is a sensational book that will transform the way you live and love.

Marriage, a History

Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101118253
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Marriage, a History written by Stephanie Coontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.

The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships

Author : Jeffry A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195398696
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships written by Jeffry A. Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive summary of the psychology of close relationships, and showcases classic and contemporary theories, models, and empirical research that have been conducted in the field.

The New Psychology of Love

Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110847568X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The New Psychology of Love written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts. It is suitable for psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and anyone with an interest in love and what has been learned from scientific studies of it.

Intimacy Without Responsibility

Author : Wendyne Limber
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557736919
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Intimacy Without Responsibility written by Wendyne Limber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimacy Without Responsibility is a BOOK, a WORKSHOP, a PROCESS and a WAY OF BEING in relationship with others and Self... 49 PRINCIPLES are presented in this work that move us toward the conscious evolution of love through freedom, creativity and wholeness.Intimacy Without Responsibility is about learning to be in relationship without taking responsibility for another person's feelings or pain or even their success or joy!

Love, Sex, and Intimacy

Author : Elaine Hatfield
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Love, Sex, and Intimacy written by Elaine Hatfield and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sex at Dawn

Author : Christopher Ryan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062002937
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Sex at Dawn written by Christopher Ryan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as well as religious and cultural institutions—has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing. Fewer and fewer couples are getting married, and divorce rates keep climbing as adultery and flagging libido drag down even seemingly solid marriages. How can reality be reconciled with the accepted narrative? It can't be, according to renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethå. While debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, they offer a bold alternative explanation in this provocative and brilliant book. Ryan and Jethå's central contention is that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. Human beings everywhere and in every era have confronted the same familiar, intimate situations in surprisingly different ways. The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity. With intelligence, humor, and wonder, Ryan and Jethå show how our promiscuous past haunts our struggles over monogamy, sexual orientation, and family dynamics. They explore why long-term fidelity can be so difficult for so many; why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens; why many middle-aged men risk everything for transient affairs with younger women; why homosexuality persists in the face of standard evolutionary logic; and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality. In the tradition of the best historical and scientific writing, Sex at Dawn unapologetically upends unwarranted assumptions and unfounded conclusions while offering a revolutionary understanding of why we live and love as we do.