Mind Is A Myth

Author : U. G. Krishnamurti
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind is a Myth written by U. G. Krishnamurti and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind is a Myth talks about a man who had it all, including looks, wealth, culture, fame, travel, career, etc. and gave up everything to find answers to questions for himself. This book aims to introduce the readers to the unknown truths in life and discuss this topic: behind all the abstractions thrown by religion to us, is there really such a thing as freedom, enlightenment, or liberation?

Author : U.G. Krishnamurti
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind is a Myth written by U.G. Krishnamurti and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no such thing as your mind and my mind. There is only mind—the totality of all that has been known, felt, and experienced by man, handed down from generation to generation. We are all thinking and functioning in that "thought sphere", just as we all share the same atmosphere for breathing. The thoughts are there to function and communicate in this world sanely and intelligently."

Author : U.G. Krishnamurti
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind is a Myth written by U.G. Krishnamurti and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no such thing as your mind and my mind. There is only mind—the totality of all that has been known, felt, and experienced by man, handed down from generation to generation. We are all thinking and functioning in that "thought sphere", just as we all share the same atmosphere for breathing. The thoughts are there to function and communicate in this world sanely and intelligently."

Author : Thomas Metzinger
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458759164
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ego Tunnel written by Thomas Metzinger and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain - an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is ''a virtual self in a virtual reality.'' But if the self is not ''real,'' why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct it? Do we still have souls, free will, personal autonomy, or moral accountability? In a time when the science of cognition is becoming as controversial as evolution, The Ego Tunnel provides a stunningly original take on the mystery of the mind.

Author : Ray Scott Percival
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812696859
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Closed Mind written by Ray Scott Percival and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious zeal, suicide terrorism, passionate commitment to ideologies, and the results of various psychological tests are often cited to show that humans are fundamentally irrational. The author examines all such supposed examples of irrationality and argues that they are compatible with rationality. Rationality does not mean absence of error, but the possibility of correcting error in the light of criticism. In this sense, all human beliefs are rational: they are all vulnerable to being abandoned when shown to be faulty.

Author : U. G. Krishnamurti
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind is a Myth written by U. G. Krishnamurti and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises dialogues between U.G. Krishnamurti and various questioners in different countries. It reminds the readers not to take their beliefs to extremes and crushes a lot of prevalent silly notions. Krishnamurti's answers reveal that he firmly believes there is no truth and that everything is myth and fiction. He denies enlightenment and spirituality and categorizes it as a biological phenomenon that occurs when a person is completely free of culture, conditioning, and religious beliefs. Excerpt:"There is no such thing as your mind and my mind. There is only mind—the totality of all that has been known, felt, and experienced by man, handed down from generation to generation. We are all thinking and functioning in that "thought sphere", just as we all share the same atmosphere for breathing. The thoughts are there to function and communicate in this world sanely and intelligently."

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166478
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absence of Mind written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.

Author : Andrei Sorin
Publisher : Andsor Books
ISBN 13 : 0986938904
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software and Mind written by Andrei Sorin and published by Andsor Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing general readers as well as software practitioners, "Software and Mind" discusses the fallacies of the mechanistic ideology and the degradation of minds caused by these fallacies. Mechanism holds that every aspect of the world can be represented as a simple hierarchical structure of entities. But, while useful in fields like mathematics and manufacturing, this idea is generally worthless, because most aspects of the world are too complex to be reduced to simple hierarchical structures. Our software-related affairs, in particular, cannot be represented in this fashion. And yet, all programming theories and development systems, and all software applications, attempt to reduce real-world problems to neat hierarchical structures of data, operations, and features. Using Karl Popper's famous principles of demarcation between science and pseudoscience, the book shows that the mechanistic ideology has turned most of our software-related activities into pseudoscientific pursuits. Using mechanism as warrant, the software elites are promoting invalid, even fraudulent, software notions. They force us to depend on generic, inferior systems, instead of allowing us to develop software skills and to create our own systems. Software mechanism emulates the methods of manufacturing, and thereby restricts us to high levels of abstraction and simple, isolated structures. The benefits of software, however, can be attained only if we start with low-level elements and learn to create complex, interacting structures. Software, the book argues, is a non-mechanistic phenomenon. So it is akin to language, not to physical objects. Like language, it permits us to mirror the world in our minds and to communicate with it. Moreover, we increasingly depend on software in everything we do, in the same way that we depend on language. Thus, being restricted to mechanistic software is like thinking and communicating while being restricted to some ready-made sentences supplied by an elite. Ultimately, by impoverishing software, our elites are achieving what the totalitarian elite described by George Orwell in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" achieves by impoverishing language: they are degrading our minds.

Author : T. A. Waters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945296102
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Myth and Magick written by T. A. Waters and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842867
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When They Severed Earth from Sky written by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction. This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story--for nearly 8,000 years. We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations--although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions. Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.