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Exploring The Landscape Of The Mind
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Author : Stephen S. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2017-04-19
Exploring The Landscape Of The Mind written by Stephen S. Clark and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-19 with Psychology categories.
This book is based on the premise that humankind is, first and foremost, the outcome of the process of biological evolution. Recognition of this is fundamental to our understanding of who we are and how we behave. All living things have evolved the physical and mental attributes that promote their prospects for survival; they are good at doing the things that enable them to pass on their genes to succeeding generations, and we are no exception. Of course, through the development of culture, we have gained some freedom from our biological origins. Nevertheless, evolution has constructed the foundation upon which culture is built. The first part of the book, Ourselves Interacting with the World, presents an overview of the main capabilities that evolution has endowed us with and that enable us to interact with the environment in advantageous ways. This includes our senses, which act as windows on the world and also, of great importance, our emotions and ability to remember. Our ability to think is perhaps the crowning achievement of our evolutionary journey, and, of course, we must be able to act in a timely and effective manner. The second part of the book, Living Together, traces the history of how we became social creatures. To be truly human, we had to be capable of sharing and cooperation. We also needed to be able to control our aggressiveness and talent for deception. We settled down, making the transition from hunter-gatherers to urban dwellers, and agreed upon values and norms of behavior that enhanced our ability to get along. Ultimately, we came to see good and bad as a morality of right and wrong, further augmenting group cohesiveness. In the final part of the book, Challenges and Opportunities, attention turns to a consideration of the constraints and possibilities that must be considered in looking to the future. These realities can be seen to play out in four social arenas: the pursuit of fairness, the seeking of justice, the interplay of political beliefs and good government, and ultimately, a united society that is, at the same time, a true community. Our quest for these things will be greatly aided by a deep knowledge and appreciation of our evolutionary past and the indelible imprint it has left upon us. It may even lead us to that most elusive of all things, happiness.
Landscapes Of The Mind
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Author : John Douglas Porteous
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Landscapes Of The Mind written by John Douglas Porteous and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Philosophy categories.
Refers in particular to Graham Greene and Malcolm Lowry.
Landscape Of The Mind
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Author : John F. Hoffecker
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-31
Landscape Of The Mind written by John F. Hoffecker and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Social Science categories.
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that evolved into the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. When anatomically modern humans evolved a parallel capacity to externalize thoughts as symbolic language, individual brains within social groups became integrated into a "neocortical Internet," or super-brain, giving birth to the mind. Noting that archaeological traces of symbolism coincide with evidence of the ability to generate novel technology, Hoffecker contends that human creativity, as well as higher order consciousness, is a product of the superbrain. He equates the subsequent growth of the mind with human history, which began in Africa more than 50,000 years ago. As anatomically modern humans spread across the globe, adapting to a variety of climates and habitats, they redesigned themselves technologically and created alternative realities through tools, language, and art. Hoffecker connects the rise of civilization to a hierarchical reorganization of the super-brain, triggered by explosive population growth. Subsequent human history reflects to varying degrees the suppression of the mind's creative powers by the rigid hierarchies of nationstates and empires, constraining the further accumulation of knowledge. The modern world emerged after 1200 from the fragments of the Roman Empire, whose collapse had eliminated a central authority that could thwart innovation. Hoffecker concludes with speculation about the possibility of artificial intelligence and the consequences of a mind liberated from its organic antecedents to exist in an independent, nonbiological form.
The Landscape Of A Mind
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Author : Tohon
language : en
Publisher: Athena PressPub Company
Release Date : 2005
The Landscape Of A Mind written by Tohon and has been published by Athena PressPub Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
'A torrent's course does not depend on the water; it is latent in the mountain's topography. What controls a man's destiny?' 'There is no virtue without vice; just as there is no gold without impurity. Therefore, when one acquires a virtue, does he not acquire a vice too?' Such are the musings and reflections in 'The Landscape of a Mind'. In this profoundly introspective collection of thoughts, gathered in journal entries and correspondence with friends, Tohon questions the essence of human nature, the obscure workings of the human mind and the heart, and mulls over the meaning of good and evil, the implications of the self and ego, and the concepts of free will and choice, destiny and fate. A considerable amount of ground to cover, but Tohon's personalised and conversational tone, as well as his use of an approach that is very much rooted in the Eastern philosophies, makes this piece an enjoyable exchange of thoughts, ideas and beliefs between humanists and philosophers on a very much global level.
Landscapes Of The Mind Worlds Of Sense And Metaphor
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Author : J. Douglas Porteous
language : en
Publisher: Heritage
Release Date : 1990-12
Landscapes Of The Mind Worlds Of Sense And Metaphor written by J. Douglas Porteous and has been published by Heritage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12 with Social Science categories.
A landscape is a visual perception, the way in which we experience our environment through our eyes. In this provocative book Douglas Porteous ventures far beyond the visual into the myriad other sensory and existential perceptions -- otherscapes -- through which we encounter the worlds around and within us. Part I, Sensuous Worlds, investigates and celebrates the problems and joys of Smellscape and Soundscape. These interpretations accumulate in the pivotal essay on Bodyscape. Part II, Landscapes of Metaphor, delves more deeply into the existential landscape antinomies of human life: body (Bodyscape), vs mind (Inscape); home (Homescape) vs. travel (Escape); and, mirroring the sequence of urbanization, rural childhood (Childscape) vs. urban Adulthood (Deathscape). Rarely considered as an interconnected sequence, these 'scape studies serve to illuminate, interpret, and critique the human condition in that we are pleased to call Western 'civilization.' Porteous draws from a remarkably wide array of sources -- the modern novel (particularly the works of Graham Greene and Malcolm Lowry), poetry, travel literature, geography, psychology, urban design, and environmental aesthetics -- and adds specially commissioned line-drawings by Ole Heggen. The result is an extraordinary work, interdisciplinary in scope, non-technical in language, written with authority and passion.
Semiotics Of Landscape
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Author : George Nash
language : en
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Release Date : 1997
Semiotics Of Landscape written by George Nash and has been published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
A thought provoking collection of essays which take a cognitive approach to landscape, examining the phenomonology and symbolism of landscapes and monuments.
Thomas Hardy Landscapes Of The Mind
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Author : Andrew Enstice
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Thomas Hardy Landscapes Of The Mind written by Andrew Enstice and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Literary Criticism categories.
Landscapes Of The Mind
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981*
Landscapes Of The Mind written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981* with Art categories.
Landscape Allegory In Cinema
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Author : D. Melbye
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-19
Landscape Allegory In Cinema written by D. Melbye and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-19 with History categories.
This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind,' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states.
The Landscape Of The Mind
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Author : Richard Cody
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1969
The Landscape Of The Mind written by Richard Cody and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Literary Collections categories.