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Atoms of Mind
This book describes the author’s view of how the mind “thinks” at various levels of operation. These levels include nonconscious mind (as in spinal/brainstem reflexes and neuroendocrine controls), subconscious mind, and conscious mind. In the attempt to explain conscious mind, there is considerable critique of arguments over whether or not free will is an illusion. Finally, the author summarizes current leading theories for consciousness (Bayesian probability, chaos, and quantum mechanics) and then presents his own theory based on patterns of nerve impulses in circuits that are interlaced coherently into larger networks.
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Atoms of Mind
This book describes the author’s view of how the mind “thinks” at various levels of operation. These levels include nonconscious mind (as in spinal/brainstem reflexes and neuroendocrine controls), subconscious mind, and conscious mind. In the attempt to explain conscious mind, there is considerable critique of arguments over whether or not free will is an illusion. Finally, the author summarizes current leading theories for consciousness (Bayesian probability, chaos, and quantum mechanics) and then presents his own theory based on patterns of nerve impulses in circuits that are interlaced coherently into larger networks.
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Celestial Dreamers
Tera Pascoe discovers that people who are sleeping when the centre of the galaxy passes overhead, are waking up with increased intelligence. No one will believe her - she doesn't quite believe it herslf, but her imaginary friend Alice, the one who went to Wonderland and is still hanging around though Tera is 32, encourages her and becomes the conduit through which Tera must save all humanity, from themselves.
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Über neue Sauerstoff- und Fluor-haltige Komplexe
Es ist eine schonlangere Zeit bekannte - insbesondere durch W. BILTZ 1) betonte - Erfahrung, daB man Verbindungen hoher Wertigkeitsstufen viel- fach dadurch stabilisieren kann, daB man geeignete Komplexverbindungen herstellt. So ist z. B. von Halogeniden des dreiwertigen Kobalts im festen III III Zustande nur das co F3 darstellbar, nicht aber z. B. co C1, wahrend 3 III III sich komplexe Verbindungen (z. B. [co (NH )6] C1, K3 [co (CN)6J) in gro- 3 3 Ber Zahl gewinnen lieBen. Andererseits ist bekannt, daB man bei den mei- sten Elementen Verbindungen hoher Wertigkeitsstufen am leichtetsten bei Fluoriden und Oxyden erhalt. Es lag daher der Gedanke nahe, durch die Darstellung von geeigneten Oxo- und Fluorokomplexen zu versuchen, bei Elementen, d e in mehreren Oxydationsstufen vorkommen konnen, zu Verbin- dungen von bisher noch nicht erreichten Wertigkeitsstufen zu gelangen. Es war zu erwarten, daB solche Studien nicht nur zu wissenschaftlich, sondern auch technisch interessanten Ergebnissen flihren wlirden; denn ein- mal braucht man flir alle Anwendungen von Stoffen der genannten Art als Oxydationskatalysatoren, bei denen es sich meist um ein Spiel zwischen mehreren Oxydationsstufen handelt, eine Kenntnis der liberhaupt moglichen Oxydationsstufen und wenn moglich der Verhaltnisse beim tibergang von einer Stufe in die andere. Zum anderen sollten die zu erwartenden Stufen farbig sein und ihre eingehende Untersuchung damit neues Material flir die Kenntnis der Pigmentfarbstoffe liefern, bei denen z. Zt.
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Making a Scientific Case for Conscious Agency and Free Will
Making a Scientific Case for Conscious Agency and Free Will makes a series of arguments that certain human behaviors are impossible to explain in the absence of free will, and that free will emerges from materialistic processes of brain function. It outlines future directions for neuroscience studies that can harness emerging technologies and tools for systems-level analysis. All humans have the sensation that they consciously will certain things to happen and that, in the absence of external constraints, they are free to choose from among alternatives. This notion of free will is deemed obvious by the average person based on common experience. Free will is frequently defended with arguments stemming from social, legal, philosophical, and religious perspectives. But these arguments appeal to consequences—not causes—of choices and decisions. In the past 3 decades, debate has raged within the scientific community over whether free will is in fact an illusion. Because free will would require conscious agency, the supporting corollary is that consciousness itself cannot do anything and is merely an observer rather than an actor.
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Hermeneutical Inquiry: Volume 2: The Interpretation of Existence
This two-volume work is a comprehensive reader in modern philosophical and theological hermeneutics. David E. Klemm has selected essays representing acknowledged classics in hermeneutics and the best modern hermeneutical thinkers. Volume One collects essays on the hermeneutics of texts. Volume Two collects works on the hermeneutics of existence. Each essay is preceded by an informative contextualizing introduction. Volume Two includes essays by: F. Schleiermacher, W.Dilthey, E. Husserl, M. Heidegger, R. Bultmann, P. Tillich, P. Ricoeur, J. Habermas, H-G. Gadamer, and R. Scharlemann.
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Learning Skills Cycle
This book's ideas demonstrate how students are not adequately taught the learning skills necessary for superior academic achievement. The major reason schools are failing is that there is less emphasis on teaching students how to learn, the focus is on what to learn instead. This book provides teachers and parents with many concepts and tactics that they can use to teach children how to learn more efficiently and effectively. This book identifies and explains those skills and frames them as interacting in a mutually interacting and reinforcing cycle that I call the Learning Skills Cycle.
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Learning Skills Cycle
This book's ideas demonstrate how students are not adequately taught the learning skills necessary for superior academic achievement. The major reason schools are failing is that there is less emphasis on teaching students how to learn, the focus is on what to learn instead. This book provides teachers and parents with many concepts and tactics that they can use to teach children how to learn more efficiently and effectively. This book identifies and explains those skills and frames them as interacting in a mutually interacting and reinforcing cycle that I call the Learning Skills Cycle.
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