Collective Consciousness And Its Discontents

Author : Rodrick Wallace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387767657
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents: written by Rodrick Wallace and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness. This latest book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective to its predecessor and generalizes the results presented in that earlier book. It applies a multiple-workspace version of Dr. Wallace’s earlier consciousness model to large-scale institutional cognition.

Author : Rodrick Wallace
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780387767642
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents: written by Rodrick Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness. This latest book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective to its predecessor and generalizes the results presented in that earlier book. It applies a multiple-workspace version of Dr. Wallace’s earlier consciousness model to large-scale institutional cognition.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486282538
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Dover thrift editions).

Author : Rodrick Wallace
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319480782
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gene Expression and Its Discontents written by Rodrick Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how epigenetic context, in a large sense, affects gene expression and the development of an organism, using the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to construct statistical models useful in data analysis. The approach allows deep understanding of how embedding context affects development. We find that epigenetic information sources act as tunable catalysts, directing ontogeny into characteristic pathways, a perspective having important implications for epigenetic epidemiology. In sum, environmental stressors can induce a broad spectrum of developmental dysfunctions, and the book explores a number of pandemic chronic diseases, using U.S. data at different scales and levels of organization. In particular, we find the legacy of slavery has been grossly compounded by accelerating industrial decline and urban decay. Individual chapters are dedicated to obesity and its sequelae, coronary heart disease, cancer, mental disorders, autoimmune dysfunction, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions. Developmental disorders are driven by environmental factors channeled by historical trajectory and are unlikely to respond to medical interventions at the population level in the face of persistent individual and community stress. Drugs powerful enough to affect deleterious epigenetic programming will likely have side effects leading to shortened lifespan. Addressing chronic conditions and developmental disorders requires significant large-scale changes in public policy and resource allocation.

Author : Alexandra Walker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137544147
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Consciousness and Gender written by Alexandra Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law. It discusses how the collective mode of behaviour and identity can lead to unconscious role-playing based on the social norms, expectations or archetypes of a group. Alexandra Walker contends that throughout history, men have been constructed as archetypal dominators and women as victims. In casting women in this way, we have downplayed their pre-existing, innate capacities for strength, leadership and power. In casting men as archetypal dominators, we have downplayed their capacities for nurturing, care and empathy. The author investigates the widespread implications of this unconscious role-playing, arguing that even in countries in which women have many of the same legal rights as men, gender justice and equality have been too simplistically framed as ‘feminism’ and ‘women’s rights’ and that giving women the rights of men has not created gender balance. This book highlights the masculine and feminine traits belonging to all individuals and calls on international law to reflect this gender continuum.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770483691
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud extends and clarifies his analysis of religion; analyzes human unhappiness in contemporary civilization; ratifies the critical importance of the death drive theory; and contemplates the significance of guilt and conscience in everyday life. The result is Freud’s most expansive work, one wherein he discusses mysticism, love, interpretation, narcissism, religion, happiness, technology, beauty, justice, work, the origin of civilization, phylogenetic development, Christianity, the Devil, communism, the sense of guilt, remorse, and ethics. A classic, important, accessible work, Freud reminds us again why we still read and debate his ideas today. Todd Dufresne’s introduction expands on why, according to the late Freud, psychoanalysis is the key to understanding individual and collective realities or, better yet, collective truths. The Appendices include related writings by Freud, contemporary reviews, and scholarly responses from Marcuse, Rieff, and Ricoeur.

Author : Lionel Kochan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719035357
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Download or read book The Jewish Renaissance and Some of Its Discontents written by Lionel Kochan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On pp. 90-117, "The Task of the Historian, " objects to the tendency to turn the Holocaust into the central focal point of Jewish history and of the Jewish "civil religion." Speaks against attempts of historians and politicians to make the Holocaust a paradigm of pre-Israeli Jewish history and to connect the establishment of the State of Israel with the Holocaust.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745656854
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernity and its Discontents written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud's analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the 'will to happiness': the result, however, is a sacrificing of security. The most prominent anxieties in our society today, Bauman shows, derive from the removal of security. The world is experienced as overwhelmingly uncertain, uncontrollable and frightening. Totalitarian politics frightened by its awesome power; the new social disorder frightens by its lack of consistency and direction. The very pursuit of individual happiness corrupts and undermines those systems of authority needed for a stable life. This book builds imaginatively upon Bauman's earlier contributions to social theory. It consolidates his reputation as the interpreter of postmodernity. The book will appeal to second-year undergraduates and above in sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and anthropology.

Author : Marisela B. Gomez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739175009
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore written by Marisela B. Gomez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America, their structural causes, and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of community organizing as a necessary means to assure benefit during and after resident displacement, its challenges and successes, are described in the context of a current eminent domain-driven rebuilding project in East Baltimore.

Author : Rodrick Wallace
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319539108
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Psychiatry written by Rodrick Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores mental disorders from a uniquely evolutionary perspective. Although there have been many attempts to mathematically model neural processes and, to some extent, their dysfunction, there is very little literature that models mental function within a sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental context. Addressing this gap in the extant literature, this book explores essential aspects of mental disorders, recognizing the ubiquitous role played by the exaptation of crosstalk between cognitive modules at many different scales and levels of organization, the missing heritability of complex diseases, and cultural epigenetics. Further, it introduces readers to valuable control theory tools that permit the exploration of the environmental induction of neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as the study of the synergism between culture, psychopathology and sleep disorders, offering a distinctively unique resource.