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Mindmelding

Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy

By: William Hirstein

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Mindmelding

Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy

By: William Hirstein

In this important and controversial new book, William Hirstein argues that it is possible for one person to directly experience the conscious states of another, by way of what he calls mindmelding. Drawing on a range of research from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he presents a highly original new account of consciousness.

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Mindmelding

Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy

By: William Hirstein

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Mindmelding

Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy

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Responsible Brains

Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability

By: William Hirstein,Katrina L. Sifferd,Tyler K. Fagan

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Responsible Brains

Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability

By: William Hirstein,Katrina L. Sifferd,Tyler K. Fagan

An examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility. When we praise, blame, punish, or reward people for their actions, we are holding them responsible for what they have done. Common sense tells us that what makes human beings responsible has to do with their minds and, in particular, the relationship between their minds and their actions. Yet the empirical connection is not necessarily obvious. The “guilty mind” is a core concept of criminal law, but if a defendant on trial for murder were found to have serious brain damage, which brain parts or processes would have to be damaged for him to be considered not responsible, or less responsible, for the crime? What mental illnesses would justify legal pleas of insanity? In Responsible Brains, philosophers William Hirstein, Katrina Sifferd, and Tyler Fagan examine recent developments in neuroscience that point to neural mechanisms of responsibility. Drawing on this research, they argue that evidence from neuroscience and cognitive science can illuminate and inform the nature of responsibility and agency. They go on to offer a novel and comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility. The authors' core hypothesis is that responsibility is grounded in the brain's prefrontal executive processes, which enable us to make plans, shift attention, inhibit actions, and more. The authors develop the executive theory of responsibility and discuss its implications for criminal law. Their theory neatly bridges the folk-psychological concepts of the law and neuroscientific findings.

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MIT Press

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0262549271

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Cognitive Science

An Introduction to Mind and Brain

By: Daniel Kolak,William Hirstein,Peter Mandik,Jonathan Waskan

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Cognitive Science

An Introduction to Mind and Brain

By: Daniel Kolak,William Hirstein,Peter Mandik,Jonathan Waskan

Cognitive Science is a major new guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain. The authors clearly explain how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain as a computational system that manipulates representations. They identify the roots of cognitive science in Descartes - who argued that all knowledge of the external world is filtered through some sort of representation - and examine the present-day role of Artificial Intelligence, computing, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience. Throughout, the key building blocks of cognitive science are clearly illustrated: perception, memory, attention, emotion, language, control of movement, learning, understanding and other important mental phenomena. Cognitive Science: presents a clear, collaborative introduction to the subject is the first textbook to bring together all the different strands of this new science in a unified approach includes illustrations and exercises to aid the student

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Routledge

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1134598815

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Supercinema

Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age

By: William Brown

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Supercinema

Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age

By: William Brown

Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to that of Superman hiding his powers behind the persona of Clark Kent. Locating itself on the cusp of film theory, film-philosophy and cognitive approaches to cinema, Supercinema also looks at the relationship between the spectator and film that utilizes digital technology to maximum, ‘supercinematic’ effect.

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Berghahn Books

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0857459503

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Sonic Phantoms

Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence

By: Barbara Ellison,Thomas Bey William Bailey

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Sonic Phantoms

Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence

By: Barbara Ellison,Thomas Bey William Bailey

In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music--and perhaps in all sound--sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501347047

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Culture and Consciousness

Literature Regained

By: William S. Haney

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Culture and Consciousness

Literature Regained

By: William S. Haney

Haney demonstrates that the debates in theory surrounding the questions of identity, truth, and language, which have so far eluded the mind or reason, cannot be resolved without recourse to the structure of consciousness and intersubjectivity - an interaction mediated by language and resulting in mutual agreement. Chapters four to eight apply the notion of intersubjectivity to the reading of specific works."--Jacket.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838755291

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Globalization and the Posthuman

By: William S. Haney II

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Globalization and the Posthuman

By: William S. Haney II

Globalization and the Posthuman argues that by globalizing posthumanism through biotechnology, particularly through the invasive interface of humans and machines, we may well interfere with and even undermine the innate quality of human psycho-physiology and the experience of the internal observer, the non-socially constructed self or pure consciousness. Furthermore, many features of globalization in-and-of itself—such as the fall of public man, the exterritorialization of capital, the loss of an impersonal public world to localized communities based on emotively shared interests—combined with the posthuman expansion of biotechnology will diminish our natural capacity to experience the self as knower and lead to an increase in global crime, sickness, accident rates and overall lack of harmony. The experience of the self comprises the unsayable secret of modern and postmodern literature and art, a secret that may soon become inaccessible if the world continues down the road of globalized infomania. The analysis of the consequences of globalization and the posthuman in this book is unique in that it will be the first to examine the interrelation between globalization, posthumanism and pure consciousness. Posthumanists define consciousness in a way that promotes the globalization of biotechnology without regard for its potential risks. This book explores the implications of the globalization of the posthuman model of consciousness. On the one hand, cognitive scientists tend to equate consciousness with subjectivity, which they associate with the thinking mind as an extension of the body, nature and culture; Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, distinguishes mind from consciousness, with mind defined as the content of consciousness. Bionic technology will have the effect of raising human metabolism and preventing the mind from settling down to the state of least excitation of consciousness. This book suggests that while conscious content is an indispensable aspect of both the human and posthuman condition, the thoughts, memories, feelings and perceptions of this content do not encompass a vital aspect of human nature attested to not only by the first-person experience of many millions of people around the world, but also by the records of both classical and modern contemplative traditions.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443809446

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Memories from a Life in Public Service

By: Otis R. Bowen,William Du Bois

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Memories from a Life in Public Service

By: Otis R. Bowen,William Du Bois

Otis Bowen grew up poor in Fulton County, but was rich in the things that count. With the support of his parents, siblings, teachers, and friends, he pursued a dream of becoming a family physician. This book is Otis Bowen's recollection of his hard work and continuous sacrifice to finance his way though medical school."--BOOK JACKET.

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Indiana University Press

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0253337674

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Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond

By: Geoffrey William Adams

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Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond

By: Geoffrey William Adams

This book examines the biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It seeks to further understand the author of the Historia Augusta alongside the reminiscences of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Geoff W. Adams arrives at this understanding through a study of a wide range of literary texts. Marcus Aurelius was a very important ruler of the Roman Empire, who has had an impact symbolically, philosophically, and historically upon how the Roman Empire has been envisioned. Adams achieves this end to bring a clearer understanding to his representation and to modern interpretations of his highly interpreted and romanticized representations in the ancient texts.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739176382

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Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies

Voices in Everything

By: Howard Mancing,Jennifer Marston William

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Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies

Voices in Everything

By: Howard Mancing,Jennifer Marston William

Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological models such as post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism, which significantly contradict current dominant scientific views. By contrast, this monograph promotes an alternative paradigm for literary studies, namely Contextualism, and in so doing highlights the similarities and differences among the sometimes-conflicting contemporary cognitive approaches to literature and performance, arguing not in favor of one over the other but for Contextualism as their common ground.

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Springer Nature

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3030890783

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Attentional Engines

A Perceptual Theory of the Arts

By: William P. Seeley

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Attentional Engines

A Perceptual Theory of the Arts

By: William P. Seeley

What is it about art that can be so captivating? How is it that we find value in the often odd and abstract objects and events we call artworks? William P. Seeley proposes that artworks are attentional engines. They are artifacts that have been intentionally designed to direct attention to critical stylistic features that reveal their point, purpose, or meaning. In developing this view, Seeley argues that there is a lot we can learn about the value of art from interdisciplinary research focused on our perceptual engagement with artworks. Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science and behavioral science can explain how we recognize artworks and how we differentiate them from more quotidian artifacts. Seeley pushes this line of reasoning, showing how cognitive science can help reveal the way artworks function as a unique source of value. He argues that our interactions with artworks draw on a broad base of shared artistic and cultural norms constitutive of different categories of art. Cognitive systems integrate this information into our experience of art, guiding attention and shaping what we perceive. Our understanding and appreciation of artworks is therefore carried in our perceptual experience of them. Attentional Engines explores the pitfalls and potential of this interdisciplinary strategy for understanding art. It articulates a cognitivist theory of art grounded in perceptual psychology and neuroscience and demonstrates its application to a range of puzzles in the philosophy of the arts. This includes questions about the nature of depiction, the role played by metakinesis in dance appreciation, the nature of musical expression, and the power of movies. The interdisciplinary and provocative theories Seeley presents will appeal to scholars and students interested in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of art, and cognitive science.

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Oxford University Press

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0190662166

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Natural Fabrications

Science, Emergence and Consciousness

By: William Seager

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Natural Fabrications

Science, Emergence and Consciousness

By: William Seager

The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities. The almost infinite variety and complexity of the world is thus the product of emergence. But the concept of emergence is fraught with controversy and confusion. This book ponders the question of how emergence should be understood within the scientific picture, and whether a complete vision of the world can be attained that includes consciousness.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642295991

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The Nature of Nature

Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science

By: Bruce Gordon,William Dembski

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The Nature of Nature

Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science

By: Bruce Gordon,William Dembski

The intellectual and cultural battles now raging over theism and atheism, conservatism and secular progressivism, dualism and monism, realism and antirealism, and transcendent reality versus material reality extend even into the scientific disciplines. This stunning new volume captures this titanic clash of worldviews among those who have thought most deeply about the nature of science and of the universe itself. Unmatched in its breadth and scope, The Nature of Nature brings together some of the most influential scientists, scholars, and public intellectuals—including three Nobel laureates—across a wide spectrum of disciplines and schools of thought. Here they grapple with a perennial question that has been made all the more pressing by recent advances in the natural sciences: Is the fundamental explanatory principle of the universe, life, and self-conscious awareness to be found in inanimate matter or immaterial mind? The answers found in this book have profound implications for what it means to do science, what it means to be human, and what the future holds for all of us.

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Open Road Media

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1497644372

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Psychophysiological Recording

By: Robert Morris Stern,William J. Ray,Karen S. Quigley

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Psychophysiological Recording

By: Robert Morris Stern,William J. Ray,Karen S. Quigley

This is a thorough revision of an introductory text on psychophysiological recording, with new information on equipment used to do brain scanning and other equipment not available in 1980.

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0195113594

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Language and Religion

A Journey into the Human Mind

By: William Downes

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Language and Religion

A Journey into the Human Mind

By: William Downes

Language and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations, dependent on language to unify diverse capacities of the human mind. It argues that religion is widespread because it is implicit in the way the mind processes the world, as it determines what we ought to do, practically and morally, to achieve our goals. Focusing on the world religions, the book relates modern cognitive theories of language and communication to culture and its dissemination. It explains basic features of religion such as the supernatural, the normative, abstract and ideal theological concepts such as 'God', and religious feeling. It develops a linguistic theory, based on how utterances are understood, of metaphysical and moral 'mysteries' and their key role in thought and action. It shows how such concepts gain strength in the light of their successful use and, when tempered by criticism, can also have genuine authority.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139494937

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Responsible Brains

Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability

By: William Hirstein,Katrina L. Sifferd,Tyler K. Fagan

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Responsible Brains

Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability

By: William Hirstein,Katrina L. Sifferd,Tyler K. Fagan

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Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine - E-Book

Expert Consult Premium Edition - Enhanced Online Features

By: Meir H. Kryger,Thomas Roth,William C. Dement

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Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine - E-Book

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By: Meir H. Kryger,Thomas Roth,William C. Dement

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 5th Edition, by Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Thomas Roth, PhD, and William C. Dement, MD, PhD, delivers the comprehensive, dependable guidance you need to effectively diagnose and manage even the most challenging sleep disorders. Updates to genetics and circadian rhythms, occupational health, sleep in older people, memory and sleep, physical examination of the patient, comorbid insomnias, and much more keep you current on the newest areas of the field. A greater emphasis on evidence-based approaches helps you make the most well-informed clinical decisions. And, a new more user-friendly, full-color format, both in print and online, lets you find the answers you need more quickly and easily. Whether you are preparing for the new sleep medicine fellowship examination, or simply want to offer your patients today's best care, this is the one resource to use! Make optimal use of the newest scientific discoveries and clinical approaches that are advancing the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437736092

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Brain Fiction

Self-deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

By: William Hirstein

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Brain Fiction

Self-deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

By: William Hirstein

The phenomenon of confabulation--the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true--and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature.

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MIT Press

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0262083388

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Cross-cultural Perspectives in Introductory Psychology

By: William F. Price,Richley H. Crapo

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Cross-cultural Perspectives in Introductory Psychology

By: William F. Price,Richley H. Crapo

By William F. Price, North Country Community College, and Richley H. Crapo, Utah State University. This timely revision contains 26 articles on cultural groups around the globe and is an ideal companion volume to any introductory psychology text. Where appropriate in the standard curriculum of the introductory course, the authors include a cross-cultural reading or vignette that enriches the traditional material of the course. The book is designed to increase student understanding of the similarities and differences among the peoples of the world as they relate to psychological principles, concepts, and issues. As topics are covered in the introductory course, readings offer another dimension.

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Cengage Learning

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0534546536

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Brain Fiction

Self-deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

By: William Hirstein

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Brain Fiction

Self-deception and the Riddle of Confabulation

By: William Hirstein

The phenomenon of confabulation--the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true--and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature.

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