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Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

By: J. F. Pagel,Philip Kirshtein

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Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

By: J. F. Pagel,Philip Kirshtein

Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These "dreams are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity. Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition. - Addresses the function and role of dream-like processing in AI systems - Describes the functions of dreaming in the creative process of both humans and machines - Presents an alternative approach to the philosophy of machine consciousness - Provides thorough discussion of machine dreaming and consciousness for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition

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Dream Science

Exploring the Forms of Consciousness

By: J. F. Pagel

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Dream Science

Exploring the Forms of Consciousness

By: J. F. Pagel

Dreaming is the cognitive state uniquely experienced by humans and integral to our creativity, the survival characteristic that allows for the rapid change and innovation that defines our species and provides the basis for our art, philosophy, science, and humanity. Yet there is little empiric or scientific evidence supporting the generally accepted dream-based theories of neuroconsciousness. Dream Science examines the cognitive science of dreaming and offers an evidence-based view of the phenomenon. Today, such evidence-based breakthroughs in the field of dream science are altering our understanding of consciousness. Different forms of dreaming consciousness occur throughout sleep, and dreamlike states extend into wake. Each dream state is developed on a framework of memories, emotions, representational images, and electrophysiology, amenable to studies utilizing emerging and evolving technology. Dream Science discusses basic insights into the scientific study of dreaming, including the limits to traditional Freudian-based dream theory and the more modern evidence-based science. It also includes coverage of the processes of memory and parasomnias, the sleep-disturbance diagnoses related to dreaming. This comprehensive book is a scientific exploration of the mind-brain interface and a look into the future of dream science. - Provides a more evidence-based approach than any other work on the market - Single source of integrated information on all aspects of dream science makes this a critical time-saving reference for researchers and clinicians - Authored by one of the leaders in the field of dream research

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians and Therapists

By: J.F. Pagel

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians and Therapists

By: J.F. Pagel

PTSD is in no way an easy diagnosis for the patient, the provider, or the therapist. It is a diagnosis developed at the border of our capacity to handle extreme stress, a marker diagnosis denoting the limits of our capacity for functioning in the stress of this modern world. For both individuals and society, PTSD marks the limits of our available compassion and our capacity to protect ourselves from the dangers of the environment and other humans. PTSD is often a chronic disease, forming at a place where mind sometimes no longer equals the brain, a point at which individual patient requirements often trump theory and belief. There are treatments for PTSD that work, and many that do not. This book presents evidence, rather than theory, anecdote, or case report. Psychological approaches including prolonged exposure, imagery rehearsal therapy and EMDR have a greater than 75% positive short-term response when used to treat PTSD. Yet these treatments vary markedly and have different, even contradictory underlying theory and objectives for treatment. Medications, rarely indicated as primary therapy, can be used to treat symptoms and address comorbid PTSD diagnoses. Treatment of sleep apnea in the PTSD population produces a positive effect on symptoms and a reduction in morbidity and mortality across the span of life. Complementary treatments offer the many individuals chronically affected by PTSD assistance in coping with symptoms and opportunities to attempt to functionally integrate their experience of trauma.

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The Limits of Dream

A Scientific Exploration of the Mind / Brain Interface

By: J. F. Pagel

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The Limits of Dream

A Scientific Exploration of the Mind / Brain Interface

By: J. F. Pagel

The Limits of Dream focuses on what we currently know of the human central nervous system (CNS), examining the basic sciences of neurochemisty, neuroanatomy, and CNS electrophysiology as these sciences apply to dream, then reaching beyond basic science to examine the cognitive science of dreaming including the processes of memory, the perceptual interface, and visual imagery. Building on what is known of intrapersonal CNS processing, the book steps outside the physical body to explore artificially created dreams and their use in filmmaking, art and story, as well as the role of dreaming in creative process and creative "madness. The limits of our scientific knowledge of dream frame this window that can be used to explore the border between body and mind. What is known scientifically of the cognitive process of dreaming will lead the neuroscientist, the student of cognitive science, and the general reader down different paths than expected into an exploration of the fuzzy and complex horizon between mind and brain. - The clearest presentation of research and philosophy currently available relating to the mind/brain interface - Discusses the cognitive processes of dreaming utilized in film and artificial intelligence - Describes the functioning of dream in the creative process

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0080559603

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The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

Brain Waves and Dreaming

By: J. F. Pagel

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The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

Brain Waves and Dreaming

By: J. F. Pagel

The Electrical Fields of Consciousness: Brain Waves and Dreaming examines neuro-electrophysiology from its origins in the electrical fields of primitive organisms to its roles in the electrophysiologically defined states of human consciousness. This volume presents and cogently organizes the wide spectrum of information available as to how and why bioelectrical fields are used to define and function in supporting both life and consciousness. Integrating electrophysiology in a comprehensible manner into neuroanatomical, electromagnetic, and global platform theories of neuroconsciousness, this book brings together the wide spectrum of available data-based evidence regarding the physiology and functions of bioelectric fields and their relationship to consciousness.Chapters examine the origin and potential function of bioelectrical fields and EEG associations with conscious states, as well as the relationship between electrical fields and consciousness. Incorporating the basic science, clinical correlates, and functional potential of CNS bioelectrical fields, this book is a must-read for all working in the field of CNS electrophysiology or neuroconsciousness. - Addresses our current understandings of the origin and potential functions of bioelectricity - Integrates electrophysiology into current theories of neuroconsciousness, presenting within an historic research and clinical context - Explores the origin, nature, bioenergetics, and potential genetic effects of synchronous physiologic electrical fields and their use as markers for life and death - Addresses the definition and assessment of consciousness in human and non-human systems and reviews electrophysiological markers of wake and sleep consciousness states - Discusses electrophysiologic drug and disease correlates as well as modern forms of electrical therapy

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0323997392

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The DARWIN Papers

By: J. F. Derry

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The DARWIN Papers

By: J. F. Derry

An eclectic collection of scientific papers and popular science articles on Darwin and Darwinian evolution, beautifully illustrated. Topics range from Darwin's time spent in Edinburgh to the place of music in his life and works, his struggle with the impact of his ideas and the way that they have been subsequently used. What role has water location played in African evolution? Which well-known zoologist anonymously wrote a scathing review of The Origin of Species? What do contemporary academics think of Darwin's legacy? What role will Darwinism play in our future? Here are the answers to these and many more questions about Darwin and Darwinian evolution.

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1291325905

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Scripture, Logic, Language

Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

By: Tom J. F. Tillemans

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Scripture, Logic, Language

Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

By: Tom J. F. Tillemans

Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits, and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory, his notoriously difficult thought nonetheless remains poorly understood. In this volume, one of the world's leading scholars of Buddhist philosophy sheds light on the interrelated topics of scripture, logic, and language in the works of Dharmakirti and his philosophical heirs, both Indian and Tibetan. Professor Tillemans' knowledgeable explanations of such technical subjects as the apoha theory of reference and the problem of entailment (vyapti) are coupled throughout with insightful reflections on how best to evaluate Dharmakirti's theories in light of contemporary philosophical thought. Scripture, Logic, Language is an informative and thought-provoking study for students of Buddhism as well as for those in the wider field of philosophy.

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The Limits of Dream

A Scientific Exploration of the Mind / Brain Interface

By: J. F. Pagel

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Dream Science

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Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

By: J. F. Pagel,Philip Kirshtein

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The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

Brain Waves and Dreaming

By: J. F. Pagel

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians and Therapists

By: J.F. Pagel

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A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians and Therapists

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Book's by J.F. Pagel

Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

Dream Science

Dream Science

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

The Limits of Dream

The Limits of Dream

The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

The DARWIN Papers

The DARWIN Papers

Scripture, Logic, Language

Scripture, Logic, Language

The Limits of Dream

The Limits of Dream

Dream Science

Dream Science

Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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