Myth Of Mind

Author : Noel Wilson Smith
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634917674
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MYTH OF MIND written by Noel Wilson Smith and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the assumptions and confusions regarding misuse of constructs (constructions) in mainstream psychology. The confusions involve a failure to distinguish constructs from concrete events. Four controversial topics of psychology, namely mind-body, consciousness, free will vs. determinism, and sensations are examined.

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 : 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 : 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 : Christian Jarrett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118312716
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Myths of the Brain written by Christian Jarrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Myths of the Brain introduces readers to the field of neuroscience by examining popular myths about the human brain. Explores commonly-held myths of the brain through the lens of scientific research, backing up claims with studies and other evidence from the literature Looks at enduring myths such as “Do we only use 10% of our brain?”, “Pregnant women lose their mind”, “Right-brained people are more creative” and many more. Delves into myths relating to specific brain disorders, including epilepsy, autism, dementia, and others Written engagingly and accessibly for students and lay readers alike, providing a unique introduction to the study of the brain Teaches readers how to spot neuro hype and neuro-nonsense claims in the media

Author : Scott O. Lilienfeld
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444360744
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology written by Scott O. Lilienfeld and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains', and 'handwriting reveals your personality' Provides a 'mythbusting kit' for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life Teaches essential critical thinking skills through detailed discussions of each myth Includes over 200 additional psychological myths for readers to explore Contains an Appendix of useful Web Sites for examining psychological myths Features a postscript of remarkable psychological findings that sound like myths but that are true Engaging and accessible writing style that appeals to students and lay readers alike

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 : 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 : Indrani Deb
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1645877752
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and the Mind written by Indrani Deb and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian mythology is a teeming storehouse of heroes and heroines, who are psychological studies in themselves. Did you know, for instance, how Krishna’s son, who was his father’s alter ego, tackled the curse to be the destroyer of his entire clan? Did you know that sage Gargi was the only lady amongst legendary sages who competed for the prize for the greatest sage in the sub-continent? Did you know that Sahadev, the youngest Pandava, had qualities lacking in any of his other, better-known brothers? Did you know that Shakuni is actually a tragic hero? Myth and the Mind is a collection of six short stories about very interesting personalities in Indian mythology. These men and women are all great, and they are all human beings in whom we will all discover a small part of ourselves.

Author : John Izod
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349193240
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood and the Box Office written by John Izod and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing business circumstances have put pressure on film studios and changed the nature of films they produce. This book examines the reaction of the corporations who have found themselves in danger or have perceived new ways of adding to their profitability, influencing the films they produce.