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Author : Lon Strickler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954528307
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Meme Humanoids written by Lon Strickler and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lon Strickler
Publisher : Beyond the Fray Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781954528147
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Winged Cryptids written by Lon Strickler and published by Beyond the Fray Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our world is more than we can see, more than what we have discovered and more than what we can imagine." - A cryptid investigator. In the fall of 1988, Lon Strickler, researcher, author, and publisher of the syndicated Phantoms and Monsters blog, came face to face with a red-eyed winged humanoid. This encounter changed him forever and set him on a path that has spanned decades seeking answers and ultimately the truth regarding these mysterious creatures. In the pages of this book, he covers a wide variety of winged cryptid eyewitness reports which he has personally received and directly researched over the past thirty plus years. Some of these eyewitness reports will shock, others terrify, but all will give better insight into this phenomenon and leave you wondering just what they could be.
Author : Matt Vaughn
Publisher : TrineDay
ISBN 13 : 1634244532
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)
Download or read book My Cosmic Trigger written by Matt Vaughn and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High strangeness denotes happenings so uncanny they are deemed "utterly absurd." It involves the intersection of multiple paranormal phenomena, revealing an eerie undergirding of reality. MY COSMIC TRIGGER is a deep dive into the subject, covering its history, theories, and notable researchers, analyzing mechanisms behind this cosmic enigma. The author's personal experiences provide a penetrating understanding of the phenomenon by demonstrating how and why extramundane weirdness manifests on a personal level, helping people navigate their own 'synchromystic initiation' with a sense of clarity, fostering a constructive relationship with odd occurrences (not a destabilizing one), and enabling readers to successfully pull their own cosmic trigger.
Author : J. Robert King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439156042
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Guild Wars: Edge of Destiny written by J. Robert King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny Called - They Answered In the dark recesses of Tyria, elder dragons have awoken from millennial slumbers. First came Primordus, which stirred in the Depths forcing the asura to flee to the surface. Half a century later, Jormag awoke and drove the norn from the frozen climes of the Northern Shiverpeaks, corrupting sons and brothers along the way. A generation later, Zhaitan arose in a cataclysmic event that reshaped a continent and flooded the capital of the human nation of Kryta. The races of Tyria stand on the edge of destiny. Heroes have battled against dragon minions, only to be corrupted into service of the enemy. Armies have marched on the dragons and been swep aside. The dwarves sacrificed their entire race to defeat a single dragon champion. The age of mortals may soon be over. This is a time for heroes. While the races of Tyria stand apart, six heroic individuals will come together to fight for their people: Eir, the norn huntress with the soul of an artist; Snaff, the asuran genius, and his ambitious assistant Zojja; Rytlock, the ferocious charr warrior in exile; Caithe, a deadly sylvari with deep secrets; and Logan, the valiant human guardian dealing with divided loyalties. Together they become Destiny’s Edge. Together they answer the call. But will it be enough?
Author : Naomi Sesay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781438947495
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Human Upgrade written by Naomi Sesay and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a global economic breakdown where the politicians and economist admittedly have no clue on how to fix it, one wonders where the human being goes from here. It is becoming more and more apparent that we cannot solve a problem from the consciousness in which it was created - we've tried and now we are experiencing the results. In this insightful and profoundly philosophical book, Naomi Sesay pushes the boundaries of who we seem to be at an ethereal level to make a case for upgrading our ways of being. The Human Upgrade is a bold statement of self which enlightens the reader towards taking full responsibility for their experiences; thus creating powerful life choices which inevitable has a massive impact on a global scale. The messages in the book are urgent, exhilarating and inspiring. When the time comes, we will all feel the pull to upgrade ourselves and life will appear like we've never seen it before.
Author : Jeff Long
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0609607022
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Descent written by Jeff Long and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999-11-12 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are not alone. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them. In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old. In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave. So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings. With all of Hell's precious resources and territories to be won, a global race ensues. Nations, armies, religions, and industries rush to colonize and exploit the subterranean frontier. A scientific expedition is launched westward to explore beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, both to catalog the riches there and to learn how life could develop in the sunless abyss. But in the dark underground, as humanity falls away from them, the scientists and mercenaries find themselves prey not only to the savage creatures, but also to their own treachery, mutiny, and greed. One thing is certain: Miles inside the earth, evil is very much alive.
Author : WonJoon Chung
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319416618
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design written by WonJoon Chung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design. It reports on important theoretical and practical issues, covering a wealth of topics, including aesthetics in product and system design, design-driven innovation, affective computing, evaluation tools for emotion, Kansei engineering for products and services, and many more. This timely survey addresses experts and industry practitioners with different backgrounds, such as industrial designers, emotion designers, ethnographers, human-computer interaction researchers, human factors engineers, interaction designers, mobile product designers, and vehicle system designers. Based on the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, held on July 27-31, 2016, in Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, the book represents an inspiring guide for all researchers and professionals in the field of design.
Author : Cathrine Hasse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351852434
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Designing Robots, Designing Humans written by Cathrine Hasse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics, this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another at this point in history. Robotic design is advancing at an incredible pace, and consequently the role of robots has expanded beyond mechanical work in the industrial sector to the social and domestic environment. From kitchen table pets in the shape of dinosaurs or baby seals, to robot arms that assist with eating, to self-driving cars, this book explores the psychological impact of robotic engagement, especially in domestic settings. Each chapter explores a different aspect of humanoid robotics, for example, the relationship between robotics and gender, citizenship, moral agency, ethics, inequality, and psychological development, as well as exploring the growing role of robots in education, care work, and intimate relationships. Drawing on research from across the fields of psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, this ground-breaking volume discusses the emerging social side of robotics. By examining our relationship with robots now, this book offers a new and innovative opportunity for understanding our future with robots and robotic culture. Designing Robots, Designing Humans will be interest to researchers of artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics, as well as researchers from cognitive and social psychology, philosophy, computer science, anthropology, linguistics, and engineering backgrounds.
Author : Alex Vary
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645444406
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book We are God Incarnate written by Alex Vary and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Alex Vary sets the stage for understanding our world and why we are in it. He agrees with Sir James Jeans and Professor John A. Wheeler that the cosmos originated as a thought that became material and tangible and that we participated in bringing into being not only the near and here but the far away and long ago. Vary gives examples of how we may traverse the entire cosmos and visit its worlds in spiritual chariots of thought. This implies that extraterrestrials from distant parts of the cosmos may also travel in spiritual chariots of thought to visit and inhabit Earth. Even institutionally accepted physics is often based on theoretical imaginings involving what Sir Roger Penrose termed fashion, faith, and fantasy. Vary argues the existence of adjacent realities - the mesostratum reality and the phyiostratum reality - which when taken together may form the basis of a new physics that can explain the interplay of the transcendent, the spiritual and the material. Vary introduces the idea of the mesostratum - by means of which we may realize and crystalize unique DNA structures, exotic mathematical objects and innovative ideas. According to Vary we are spiritual beings occupying bio-physical machines that are designed to survive the uncertain, often hostile and volatile, conditions of Earth. Our survival machines are essentially hedonistic while our spirits are essentially altruistic. This results in a conflict in which the machine may prevail if the spirit is weak or concedes control. World history testifies to this ongoing conflict which persists despite human and societal evolution. Vary claims that our transcendent consciousness combines our minds in a primordial consciousness. Our transcendent consciousness is in this sense unbounded and extraterrestrial. This may not be experimentally provable. It needs to be experienced. Examples of such experiences are abundant in the cited literature. We genuinely share oneness in God and in a primordial consciousness. This oneness allows us to materialize our spirits in a vast variety of living entities. There appears to be a basic spiritual awareness in intelligent, purposeful cells and the trillions of differentiated cells that form our bodies. Indeed, we are embodied spirits living in imperfect worlds and we attempt to evolve and to perfect our species and to improve our worlds.
Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345804430
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Upright Thinkers written by Leonard Mlodinow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a near-extinct species, eking out a meager existence with stone axes, become the dominant power on earth, able to harness a knowledge of nature ranging from tiny atoms to the vast structures of the universe? Leonard Mlodinow takes us on an enthralling tour of the history of human progress, from our time on the African savannah through the invention of written language, all the way to modern quantum physics. Along the way, he explores the colorful personalities of the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, and traces the cultural conditions—and the elements of chance—that influenced scientific discovery. Deeply informed, accessible, and infused with the author’s trademark humor and insight, The Upright Thinkers is a stunning tribute to humanity’s intellectual curiosity and an important book for any reader with an interest in the scientific issues of our day.
Author : Sean Sinjin
Publisher : Sean Anthony Publishers
ISBN 13 : 097622710X
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Meme written by Sean Sinjin and published by Sean Anthony Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of reality? Where did we come from? Is there a God? What is the point of life? Give your brain a shake and take on a radically new understanding of your world by joining author Sean Sinjin as he fills in the gaps in our contemporary understanding of everything from physics to religion, from the universe's birth to its death, and how to find happiness in the midst of all this seeming chaos. Meme pits science agains the supernatural in a final battle that can only end with the truth. Intentionally written with the layperson in mind, the entertaining analogies, diagrams, and clearly stated concepts construct a complete and purpose-filled perspective on what reality really is. An open mind and heart are the only prerequisites__but be warned, the concepts introduced herein can be quite overwhelming and may change your life forever. Come to http: //www.BetterHuman.org for excerpts from Meme.
Author : Ted Chu
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1579830234
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential written by Ted Chu and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, great thinkers have contemplated the meaning and purpose of human existence; but while most assumed that humanity was the end point of creation or the pinnacle of evolution, Ted Chu makes the provocative claim that the human race may in fact be a means rather than an end—that humankind will give rise to evolutionary successors. In this wide-ranging and authoritative work, Chu reexamines the question of human purpose in light of the extraordinary developments of science and technology. Arguing that a deep understanding of our place in the universe is required to navigate the magnitude of the choices that lie ahead, he surveys human wisdom from both East and West, traces the evolutionary trajectory that has led to this point, and explores the potentials emerging on the scientific frontier. The book addresses the legitimate fears and concerns of “playing God” but embraces the possibility of transcending biological forms and becoming or creating entirely new life-forms.
Author : Alex Heard
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0385498527
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse Pretty Soon written by Alex Heard and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspired madness of America's apocalyptic and pre-millennial organizations may have reached a fever pitch with the turn of the twenty-first century, but intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard spent a ten-year period witnessing the crescendo firsthand. Heard's enthusiasm led him on errands as diverse as being a voyeur at a Republic of Texas militia standoff, accompanying an expectant UFO "greeting party" to a remote field in Minnesota, and enacting the grief of the California quail at an ad-hoc therapy group for fierce environmentalists who believe the earth is an actual living entity that's preparing to kill off its human population--and soon...or at least pretty soon. Amazing as it may seem, however, throughout this trenchant subcultural travelogue, Heard never stoops to ridicule his subjects. As one reviewer puts it, "Heard's real achievement may be that he makes us care--in a way that is more than voyeuristic--about the colorful characters he meets on the road to the new millennium. He takes these people seriously, allows his assumptions to be challenged, and lets himself find that some of their beliefs and fears reflect his own" (San Jose Mercury News). Apocalypse Pretty Soon will appeal to science fiction fans and students of subcultures, as well as anybody interested in way-out alternatives to the brave new world. Amazing as it may seem, however, throughout this trenchant subcultural travelogue, Heard never stoops to ridicule his subjects. As one reviewer put it, "Heard's real achievement may be that he makes us care--in a way that is more than voyeuristic--about the colorful characters he meets on the road to the new millennium. He takes these people seriously, allows his assumptions to be challenged, and lets himself find that some of their beliefs and fears reflect his own" (San Jose Mercury News). Now in paperback, this book will have an audience well beyond "millenniamania," from science fiction fans to students of subculture, and anybody interested in way-out alternatives to the brave new world. -->
Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Elysian Detroit
ISBN 13 : 0615401368
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Deus Ex Machina Sapiens written by David Ellis and published by Elysian Detroit. This book was released on 2011 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watson's win on Jeopardy came as no surprise to those who had read Deus ex Machina sapiens. It was written largely during the 1990s, around the time that another IBM supercomputer--Deep Blue--was trouncing world chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The book has since been updated on a few points of detail but its primary message remains intact: the Machine is rapidly evolving as Man's rival if not replacement for the job of Steward of the Earth. Building upon the work of some of the world's greatest scientists, philosophers, and religious thinkers, and drawing particularly from developments in the computing and cognitive sciences--particularly, the field of artificial intelligence, or AI--the book reveals the evolutionary emergence of a machine that is not just intelligent but also self-conscious, emotional, and free-willed. In the 1980s and '90s you used to hear grandiose claims about AI. Machines would soon surpass humans in intelligence, it was claimed by some. The Japanese government spent a billion dollars on one project to make it happen. Well, it didn't happen, but that didn't stop the development of intelligence in machines. AI research simply went underground, and has ever since been quietly incorporated into the "ordinary" programs we use every day, without fanfare, without hype. There is still no machine that rivals Homo sapiens in overall intelligence, but today there are machines that far exceed human intellectual capacity in specific domains, from games to engineering to art, and the number of domains is growing exponentially big and exponentially fast. The disappearance of AI from front stage was good insofar as it allowed machines to develop in the right way; that is, through an evolutionary process, which is the only way for something of such complexity to develop. But it was bad insofar as we lost sight of the development of the intelligent machine. Deus brings Machina sapiens back to front stage, where it belongs. After describing the evolutionary development of intelligence in machines it goes on to describe the emotional, intellectual, and ethical attributes of what is no less than an emergent new life form. It asks the Big Question that can only be asked if you accept the very possibility of the new life form: Will it be serpent or savior? The question is answered in the book's title, which is intended to mean "God Emerging From the Intelligent Machine." The author confesses to having never studied Latin and to have concocted the title from two known Latin phrases: "Deus ex Machina" and "Homo sapiens." The concoction could be grammatically incorrect. The author would be pleased to be corrected.
Author : Lon Strickler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539465553
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Phantoms & Monsters written by Lon Strickler and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of unexplained encounters submitted by regular people who felt compelled to contact me about their encounter. I truly understand their dilemma...they want answers. But can they comprehend the truth? I have also included transcriptions and vintage news reports that detail unknown beasts and bizarre events. Black-eyed people, humanoids, entities, Bigfoot and hairy hominids, flying monsters and winged anomalies, upright canines, Dogman, Pennsylvania's lycans and more cryptids.
Author : Doru Pop
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498580610
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Age of Promiscuity written by Doru Pop and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an original and engaging look at contemporary popular culture, opening with the provocative idea that this is a day and age of complete exhaustion of ideas, images, stories, and myths. Questioning the effects of content recycling in cinema and other media, the author further elaborates on the repurposing of cultural junk, the reassembling of narratives and myths. The thought-provoking hypothesis proposed in this research is that we have entered an age of cultural promiscuity. By analyzing the mutations of myth-making practices and connecting them with larger cultural manifestations, the author explains these transformations as integral to the development of a myth-illogical imagination. Cinematic and mythological representations in mainstream Hollywood films have reached a point of amalgamation with no return, which marks the beginning of a "fourth age of representations," where signs and meanings are manifested in illogical permutations. This is more explicit in films that commingle aliens, cowboys, undead American presidents, and zombie nazis, joining together in the same narrative ghosts, werewolves, and vampires, aggregating disjoined storylines and historical fake facts, all coalesced in an orgy of empty burlesque and infantile masquerades. This interdisciplinary research combines cultural studies, film criticism, art and myth interpretations, bringing into the debate multiple concepts from related fields such as critical theory and media criticism. The book also opens up to innovative approaches from a wide array of academic disciplines, offering researchers, students and those fascinated by the transformations happening in contemporary cinema an interpretative tool based on a revised dialectic approach. The conclusion is that we are now victims of a zombie semiotics. Meaning-making in contemporary culture, politics, and aesthetics is dominated by a process of incessant desecration of significations, specific to the total mishmash of representations analyzed here.
Author : Joshua Gans
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026253956X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Innovation + Equality written by Joshua Gans and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to get more innovation and more equality. Is economic inequality the price we pay for innovation? The amazing technological advances of the last two decades—in such areas as artificial intelligence, genetics, and materials—have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely: we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. This contributes to a growing wealth gap; in the United States; the wealth controlled by the top 0.1 percent of households equals that of the bottom ninety percent. Is this the inevitable cost of an innovation-driven economy? Economist Joshua Gans and policy maker Andrew Leigh make the case that pursuing innovation does not mean giving up on equality—precisely the opposite. In this book, they outline ways that society can become both more entrepreneurial and more egalitarian. All innovation entails uncertainty; there's no way to predict which new technologies will catch on. Therefore, Gans and Leigh argue, rather than betting on the future of particular professions, we should consider policies that embrace uncertainty and protect people from unfavorable outcomes. To this end, they suggest policies that promote both innovation and equality. If we encourage innovation in the right way, our future can look more like the cheerful techno-utopia of Star Trek than the dark techno-dystopia of The Terminator.
