The Mind Club

Author : Daniel M. Wegner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110020
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind Club written by Daniel M. Wegner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Compelling, and so beautifully written…’The Mind Club’ deftly brings the most up-to-date research about other minds to readers of all backgrounds. It may cause you to think differently about crime and punishment, about business transactions and health care, and even about the upcoming elections. Things might just start looking up.”–The Wall Street Journal From dogs to gods, the science of understanding mysterious minds—including your own. Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club." It’s easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of mind do they have? Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray are award-winning psychologists who have discovered that minds—while incredibly important—are a matter of perception. Their research opens a trove of new findings, with insights into human behavior that are fascinating, frightening and funny. The Mind Club explains why we love some animals and eat others, why people debate the existence of God so intensely, how good people can be so cruel, and why robots make such poor lovers. By investigating the mind perception of extraordinary targets—animals, machines, comatose people, god—Wegner and Gray explain what it means to have a mind, and why it matters so much. Fusing cutting-edge research and personal anecdotes, The Mind Club explores the moral dimensions of mind perception with wit and compassion, revealing the surprisingly simple basis for what compels us to love and hate, to harm and to protect.

Author : QuickRead
Publisher : QuickRead.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of The Mind Club by Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray written by QuickRead and published by QuickRead.com. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new take on Rene Descartes’ philosophy, “I think, therefore I am,” The Mind Club (2016) explores the importance of the mind and cognitive function in our daily lives and interactions. Dissecting the concept of what constitutes a mind and how we perceive other beings as having a mind or not, Wegner and Gray demonstrate how our perception of the human mind impacts our sense of morality as well as our ability to relate to others. Do you want more free book summaires like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. DISCLAIMER: This book summary is meant as a preview and not a replacement for the original work. If you like this summary please consider purchasing the original book to get the full experience as the original author intended it to be. If you are the original author of any book on QuickRead and want us to remove it, please contact us at [email protected].

Author : Nicholas Agar
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262349167
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be Human in the Digital Economy written by Nicholas Agar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments could result in a radically disempowered humanity. The digital revolution has brought us new gadgets and new things to do with them. The digital revolution also brings the digital economy, with machines capable of doing humans' jobs. Agar explains that developments in artificial intelligence enable computers to take over not just routine tasks but also the kind of “mind work” that previously relied on human intellect, and that this threatens human agency. The solution, Agar argues, is a hybrid social-digital economy. The key value of the digital economy is efficiency. The key value of the social economy is humanness. A social economy would be centered on connections between human minds. We should reject some digital automation because machines will always be poor substitutes for humans in roles that involve direct contact with other humans. A machine can count out pills and pour out coffee, but we want our nurses and baristas to have minds like ours. In a hybrid social-digital economy, people do the jobs for which feelings matter and machines take on data-intensive work. But humans will have to insist on their relevance in a digital age.

Author : Phantom Child
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426947003
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Want to Love but Want to Kill written by Phantom Child and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They show him a rare talent, it changes him. A fire causes him to use that very talent against them. Can he overcome his own mind before it is too late?

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679587X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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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: Minds and where to find them -- The space of possible minds -- All the things you are -- Waking up to the world -- Solomon's secret -- Aliens on the doorstep -- Machine minds -- Out of this world -- Free to choose -- How to know it all.

Author : General Federation of Women's Clubs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs written by General Federation of Women's Clubs and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Help Boys written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Study Clubs written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward William Jaquet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kennel Club written by Edward William Jaquet and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Cunningham Croly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America written by Jane Cunningham Croly and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: