Download or read book The Book of Minds written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human? Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them—including in plants, aliens, and God—Philip Ball pulls the pieces together to explore what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the universe. In so doing, he offers for the first time a unified way of thinking about what minds are and what they can do, by locating them in what he calls the “space of possible minds.” By identifying and mapping out properties of mind without prioritizing the human, Ball sheds new light on a host of fascinating questions: What moral rights should we afford animals, and can we understand their thoughts? Should we worry that AI is going to take over society? If there are intelligent aliens out there, how could we communicate with them? Should we? Understanding the space of possible minds also reveals ways of making advances in understanding some of the most challenging questions in contemporary science: What is thought? What is consciousness? And what (if anything) is free will? Informed by conversations with leading researchers, Ball’s brilliant survey of current views about the nature and existence of minds is more mind-expanding than we could imagine. In this fascinating panorama of other minds, we come to better know our own.
Download or read book A Meeting of the Minds written by Anne Morris and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever experienced an unnerving fear that because your life is moving along just too perfectly, some terrible event must be looming in the future? Julia Schofield has it all - a promising career, a father who is a powerful senator, a loyal best friend, and an old flame back in town. But Julia's perfect world is about to crash to the ground. Julia is haunted by the childhood loss of her mother and plagued by insomnia and a recurring nightmare. As well, she has the terrifying realization that she is being stalked; Julia's mental and physical health is in rapid decline. Four people tied by a buried past live separate and distinguishable lives. Julia, her father Paul, the beautiful and promiscuous Madeline and congressional hopeful Richard Eberly share a secret; a secret so powerful that when discovered, it could destroy them all.
Download or read book Stand Guard at the Door of Your Mind written by Drew Young and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand Guard at the Door of Your Mind aims to guide young adults and adults in their search for a more fulfilling life amidst the confusions, tragedies, and injustices that are swirling around them on an hourly basis. The major determining factor in how our lives turn out is ourselves, and in a world that is filled with blaming, anger, selfishness, and pettiness, my book is a breath of fresh air that will put the responsibility back on the individual and teach them that in order to create a better life for themselves they need to take responsibility for their circumstances, choose to be kind, persevere through the difficult moments, and understand that it's not about how many times they fall down in life; it's about how many times they get back up and keep moving forward.
Download or read book The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals written by William T. Hornaday and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1979-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals written by William Temple Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Troubled Minds written by Amy Simpson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on the confusion, shame and grief brought on by her mother's schizophrenia, Amy Simpson provides a bracing look at the social and physical realities of mental illness. Reminding us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, she explores new possibilities for the church to minister to this stigmatized group.
Download or read book Thoughts from the Mind written by Gabriel Garcia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been reading too much fictional poetry and are looking for something a bit more real, something that can possibly relate to you, something that can maybe give your mood a hug, something that can touch your soul? This book may be for you, if you have lived through tragedy with the mirror . . . with love or with others. Have you felt the need to explain something but havent found a way to explain it in words? This may have what you have felt or wanted to say in an explained way.
Download or read book The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two great classics come to life in one of the most loved books in American History. Remastered to include Illustrated exercises, a biography of Aldous Huxley, and including the full essay of Heaven and Hell, and The Doors to Perception, this book is a great gift to those who are unfamiliar with his work, or may have forgotten about Huxley's famous contemplations of life and death. - ZKBS(c) All Rights Reserved.
Download or read book The Murderer Next Door written by David M. Buss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are committed by people who, until the day they kill, would seem to be perfectly normal. David Buss's pioneering work has made major national news in the past, and this provocative book is sure to generate a storm of attention. The Murderer Next Door is a riveting look into the dark underworld of the human psyche—an astonishing exploration of when and why we kill and what might push any one of us over the edge. A leader in the innovative field of evolutionary psychology, Buss conducted an unprecedented set of studies investigating the underlying motives and circumstances of murders, from the bizarre outlier cases of serial killers to those of the friendly next-door neighbor who one day kills his wife. Reporting on findings that are often startling and counterintuitive—the younger woman involved in a love triangle is at a high risk of being killed—he puts forth a bold new general theory of homicide, arguing that the human psyche has evolved specialized adaptations whose function is to kill. Taking readers through the surprising twists and turns of the evolutionary logic of murder, he explains exactly when each of us is most at risk, both of being murdered and of becoming a murderer. His findings about the high-risk situations alone will be news making. Featuring gripping storytelling about specific murder cases—including a never used FBI file of more than 400,000 murders and a highly detailed study of 400 murders conducted by Buss in collaboration with a forensic psychiatrist, and a pioneering investigation of homicidal fantasies in which Buss found that 91 percent of men and 84 percent of women have had at least one such vivid fantasy—The Murderer Next Door will be necessary reading for those who have been fascinated by books on profiling, lovers of true crime and murder mysteries, as well as readers intrigued by the inner workings of the human mind.
Download or read book Murderous Minds on Trial written by Stanley Semrau and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each murder trial brings its own tangle of evidence, legal parameters, medical factors, social circumstances, and personalities. The tangle gets trickier when we must keep in mind that: "A person shall not be criminally responsible for an act or omission if they suffer from a mental disorder such that they were not able to appreciate the nature and quality of their act or to know that it was wrong." Forensic Psychiatrist Stanley Semrau takes us through some of the more terrible and fascinating tales from his career and from historical sources, including several cases that came to national attention: Clifford Olson and Terry Driver (The Abbotsford Killer) and the Daniel McNaughten case that marked the beginning of the insanity defense in Britain in 1843. These chilling and thought-provoking stories delve deep into the psychiatric aspects of homicide law and into the psychology of the muderous mind. Semrau's examination of these thrilling cases also offers a critique of the existing laws in Canada as he argues for profound changes.
Download or read book Exploring Robotic Minds written by Jun Tani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do 'minds' work? In 'Exploring Robotic Minds', Jun Tani answers this fundamental question by reviewing his own pioneering neurorobotics research project.
Download or read book Door to door Sales Regulation Hearings Before the Consumer Substation 90 2 on S 1599 March 4 5 20 21 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Door to door Sales Regulation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Consumer Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 90-63. Considers S. 1599, to allow a consumer 24 hours in which to cancel a purchase from a door-to-door salesman.
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