Download or read book Manuscrito written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Sweet Dreams written by Daniel C. Dennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since Daniel Dennett's influential Consciousness Explained was published in 1991, scientific research on consciousness has been a hotly contested battleground of rival theories—"so rambunctious," Dennett observes, "that several people are writing books just about the tumult." With Sweet Dreams, Dennett returns to the subject for "revision and renewal" of his theory of consciousness, taking into account major empirical advances in the field since 1991 as well as recent theoretical challenges. In Consciousness Explained, Dennett proposed to replace the ubiquitous but bankrupt Cartesian Theater model (which posits a privileged place in the brain where "it all comes together" for the magic show of consciousness) with the Multiple Drafts Model. Drawing on psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, he asserted that human consciousness is essentially the mental software that reorganizes the functional architecture of the brain. In Sweet Dreams, he recasts the Multiple Drafts Model as the "fame in the brain" model, as a background against which to examine the philosophical issues that "continue to bedevil the field." With his usual clarity and brio, Dennett enlivens his arguments with a variety of vivid examples. He isolates the "Zombic Hunch" that distorts much of the theorizing of both philosophers and scientists, and defends heterophenomenology, his "third-person" approach to the science of consciousness, against persistent misinterpretations and objections. The old challenge of Frank Jackson's thought experiment about Mary the color scientist is given a new rebuttal in the form of "RoboMary," while his discussion of a famous card trick, "The Tuned Deck," is designed to show that David Chalmers's Hard Problem is probably just a figment of theorists' misexploited imagination. In the final essay, the "intrinsic" nature of "qualia" is compared with the naively imagined "intrinsic value" of a dollar in "Consciousness—How Much is That in Real Money?"

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul written by Simona Ginsburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka propose a new theory about the origin of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the transition to basic consciousness. Using a methodology similar to that used by scientists when they identified the transition from non-life to life, Ginsburg and Jablonka suggest a set of criteria, identify a marker for the transition to minimal consciousness, and explore the far-reaching biological, psychological, and philosophical implications. After presenting the historical, neurobiological, and philosophical foundations of their analysis, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose that the evolutionary marker of basic or minimal consciousness is a complex form of associative learning, which they term unlimited associative learning (UAL). UAL enables an organism to ascribe motivational value to a novel, compound, non-reflex-inducing stimulus or action, and use it as the basis for future learning. Associative learning, Ginsburg and Jablonka argue, drove the Cambrian explosion and its massive diversification of organisms. Finally, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose symbolic language as a similar type of marker for the evolutionary transition to human rationality—to Aristotle's “rational soul.”

Download or read book Without Criteria written by Steven Shaviro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.

Download or read book La m sica en la naturaleza y en el hombre written by Francisco José León Tello and published by Ediciones de la Torre. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentamos lo que podríamos considerar como una filosofía darwiniana de la música, que comprende, entre otros temas, la teoría de la evolución musical y sus causas, la influencia del ambiente musical y del principio de selección natural, la diversidad de las especies musicales de lso distintos pueblos...

Download or read book POR QUE NOS VIGILAN LOS EXTRATERRESTRES written by Carlos Pineda and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La investigadora Aline Terassier es honrada con el Nobel en Medicina y Fisiologia, y designada por los ETs para que divulgue el 'Mensaje Extraterrestre' destinado a gobernantes de la Tierra y en especial a los miembros del G7. Los EE. UU pone en alerta a la NSA, la CSS y el DHS, sus principales agencias de defensa. El embajador de los extraterrestres Sr. ED Cahil y el Grupo del Coronel Liam McArthur hacen un examen, detallado y riguroso sobre varios temas que se han convertido en intriga universal. Analizan 'el diseno inteligente imperfecto de los humanos' y la controvertida Teoria de Darwin. Disertan sobre la 'nanotecnologia' que coadyuvara a la aplicacion de la materia a nivel de atomos creando maquinas capaces de introducirse en el organismo humano para detectar y arreglar desperfectos. Predicen que el futuro del combustible para naves interestelares seran los 'protones energeticos'. Concretan como identificar a los seres humanos 'hibridos' o 'seres especiales' compuestos de ADN ET Y TERRICOLA y a su vez encontrar a los extraterrestres que conviven entre nosotros. Preven la modificacion en especial las neuronas del cerebro humano manipulando el ADN para cambiar la consciencia del ser humano, y para que el pensamiento pueda transmitirse mentalmente entre los humanos y los seres de otras galaxias. Pronostican el cambio del genotipo de los nuevos humanos que se pareceran mas a los 'Grises' que nos vigilan y visitan. Los nuevos humanos seran 'seres especiales' con poderes nunca conocidos y los sorprendentes 'Cyborgs' compuestos de materia organica y dispositivos ciberneticos. Viajan a la base alienigena en Fobos (Marte) para recibir mas conocimientos y preparar la visita ET a la Tierra. Abriran la mentalidad humana para iniciar un 'nuevo orden mundial'.

Download or read book Fabre s Book of Insects written by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Philosophy and Technology II written by Carl Mitcham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, the philosophy and history of science proceeded in a separate way from the philosophy and history of technology, and indeed with respect to both science and technology, philosophical and historical inquiries were also following their separate ways. Now we see in the past quarter-century how the philosophy of science has been profoundly in fluenced by historical studies of the sciences, and no longer concerned so single-mindedly with the analysis of theory and explanation, with the re lation between hypotheses and experimental observation. Now also we see the traditional historical studies of technology supplemented by phi losophical questions, and no longer so plainly focussed upon contexts of application, on invention and practical engineering, and on the mutually stimulating relations between technology and society. Further, alas, the neat division of intellectual labor, those clearly drawn distinctions be tween science and technology, between the theoretical and the applied, between discovery and justification, between internalist and externalist approaches . . . all, all have become muddled! Partly, this is due to internal revolutions within the philosophy and his tory of science (the first result being recognition of their mutual rele vance). Partly, however, this state of 'muddle' is due to external factors: science, at the least in the last half-century, has become so intimately connected with technology, and technological developments have cre ated so many new fields of scientific (and philosophical) inquiry that any critical reflection on scientific and technological endeavors must hence forth take their interaction into account.

Download or read book El yo y la m quina written by Diego Martínez Caro and published by Palabra. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las relaciones entre la mente humana y su sustrato físico, el cerebro, constituyen un misterio que, aún hoy, se plantea con una fuerza e interés renovado. Los increíbles avances en el conocimiento de la actividad cerebral proporcionado por la moderna Neurociencia ha hecho pensar a algunos que este misterio se encuentra a las puertas de su resolución. ¿Es esto cierto y en qué sentido? ¿Pueden las neurociencias dar vía libre a la explicación materialista que reduce la mente al cerebro o sucede más bien lo contrario? A su vez, la emergencia de la nueva disciplina de la inteligencia artificial ha replanteado los términos del problema postulando un nuevo tipo de mente no conectada con el cerebro humano que, en la versión radical de la cibernética punk, permitiría afirmar que, a finales del siglo, el pensamiento humano y la inteligencia artificial se habrán fundido y los ciberorganismos resultantes de la fusión controlarán las sociedades. La complejidad y novedad de las cuestiones en juego requería una difícil puesta a punto de este antiguo problema que ha sido abordada con eficacia por Diego Martínez Caro que, en este texto, expone con rigor y amenidad los últimos avances científicos al mismo tiempo que proporciona una interpretación antropológica.

Download or read book Inteligencia Evolutiva Una Jornada Hacia Nuevas Fronteras written by Ruben G Martinez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro contiene cinco partes principales que tratan temas desde nuestro origen, como especie humana, hasta nuestro sistema politico y economico actual en America, usando principios cientificos, eticos, logicos, y de sentido comun practico.

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Download or read book Mentes cerebros y ciencia written by John R. Searle and published by Catedra Ediciones. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mientras que el sentido comun nos presenta como seres racionales, conscientes y libres, la ciencia nos informa que el universo en el que operamos, y que constituimos, es un agregado de particulas inconscienles. Que sabemos del cerebro, punto de union entre nuestra mente y el mundo fisico? Muy poco. En los ultimos tiempos se abre paso una atrevida analogia que relaciona el cerebro con un ordenador digital. Algunos cientificos postulan que las maquinas pueden --o podran -- pensar. Resolvera la inteligencia Artificial los problemas planteados por la relacion mente/cerebro?

Download or read book The Forbidden Religion written by Jose M. Herrou Aragon and published by José M. Herrou Aragón. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.

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