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Past Minds
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Author : Luther H Martin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
Past Minds written by Luther H Martin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Religion categories.
How do historians understand the minds, motivations, intentions of historical agents? What might evolutionary and cognitive theorizing contribute to this work? What is the relation between natural and cultural history? Historians have been intrigued by such questions ever since publication in 1859 of Darwin's The Origin of Species, itself the historicization of biology. This interest reemerged in the latter part of the twentieth century among a number of biologists, philosophers and historians, reinforced by the new interdisciplinary finding of cognitive scientists about the universal capacities of and constraints upon human minds. The studies in this volume, primarily by historians of religion, continue this discussion by focusing on historical examples of ancient religions as well as on the theoretical promises and problems relevant to that study.
The Mind S Past
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Author : Michael S. Gazzaniga
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998
The Mind S Past written by Michael S. Gazzaniga and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Medical categories.
Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? Michael S. Gazzaniga shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific systems built into our brain do their work automatically and largely outside of our conscious awareness, Gazzaniga calls into question our everyday notions of self and reality. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and the ways we construct who we are and how we fit into the world around us. Gazzaniga explains how the mind interprets data the brain has already processed, making "us" the last to know. He shows how what "we" see is frequently an illusion and not at all what our brain is perceiving. False memories become a part of our experience; autobiography is fiction. In exploring how the brain enables the mind, Gazzaniga points us toward one of the greatest mysteries of human evolution: how we become who we are.
Last And First Men Sci Fi Novel
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2021-05-07
Last And First Men Sci Fi Novel written by Olaf Stapledon and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-07 with Fiction categories.
Last and First Men is a "future history" science fiction novel, describing the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first. Conception of history follows a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. It is an early example of the fictional supermind; a consciousness composed of many telepathically linked individuals.
Past Present And Mentalism
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Author : Moses Sandeep
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-08-02
Past Present And Mentalism written by Moses Sandeep and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-02 with categories.
Unlock the secrets of the mind and mesmerize your audience with this extraordinary book on mentalism. Inside its pages, you will discover a treasure trove of techniques that will enable you to perform mind-boggling feats of perception and intuition. Imagine effortlessly uncovering someone's pin code by skillfully employing the game of lie detection. Delve into the minds of your spectators as you astound them by accurately guessing the places they have recently visited, all without any need for billets or impression pads. But it doesn't stop there. With the power of this book, you will delve even deeper into the realm of propless mentalism. A spectator thinks of a country in their mind, and yet, through your mastery of these principles, you can confidently unveil their chosen destination, leaving them utterly bewildered. Animal thoughts hold no secrets from you. Without the need for any writing or communication, you will effortlessly discern the very creature lurking in your spectator's mind, leaving them speechless in awe of your uncanny abilities. But perhaps the most awe-inspiring aspect lies in granting your spectators the power to read minds themselves. With the techniques you'll learn, you can empower your audience to tap into their own latent abilities and become mind readers in their own right. Finally, brace yourself for the grand finale. Prepare to reveal the most intimate details of a person's life, diving into the depths of their thoughts and memories with astonishing precision. With the knowledge contained within this book, you will unlock the secrets that lie hidden within the human mind. Dive into this incredible world of mentalism and unlock the limitless potential of the human mind. The secrets await you, ready to be revealed and astonish all those who witness your extraordinary abilities.
Minds On Fire
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Author : Mark Christopher Carnes
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Minds On Fire written by Mark Christopher Carnes and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Education categories.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year In Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students’ competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and faculty who have used a pedagogy called Reacting to the Past, which features month-long games set during the French Revolution, Galileo’s trial, the partition of India, and dozens of other epochal moments in disciplines ranging from art history to the sciences. These games have spread to over three hundred campuses around the world, where many of their benefits defy expectations. “[Minds on Fire is] Carnes’s beautifully written apologia for this fascinating and powerful approach to teaching and learning in higher education. If we are willing to open our minds and explore student-centered approaches like Reacting [to the Past], we might just find that the spark of student engagement we have been searching for in higher education’s mythical past can catch fire in the classrooms of the present.” —James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education “This book is a highly engaging and inspirational study of a ‘new’ technique that just might change the way educators bring students to learning in the 21st century.” —D. D. Bouchard, Choice
Memory Distortion
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Author : Daniel L. Schacter
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995
Memory Distortion written by Daniel L. Schacter and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Medical categories.
In Memory Distortion, contributions from a multidisciplinary team of eminent scholars form the basis of an exploration of a range of phenomena including: hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories and repression.
Everfair
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Author : Nisi Shawl
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Everfair written by Nisi Shawl and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Fiction categories.
From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences. Now with a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull. In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven for native populations of the Congo as well as settlers from around the world, including dream-eyed Europeans attempting to create a better society, formerly enslaved people returning from America, and Chinese railroad builders escaping hard labor. Using the combined knowledge of four continents, Everfair becomes a land of spying cats and gulls, nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, and silent pistols that shoot poison knives. With this technology, Everfair will attempt to defeat the Belgian tyrant Leopold II. But even if they can defeat their great enemy, a looming world war and political infighting may threaten to destroy everything they have built. “A book with gorgeous sweep, spanning years and continents, loves and hates, histories and fantasies... Everfair is sometimes sad, often luminous, and always original. A wonderful achievement.” — Karen Joy Fowler At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Other Minds
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Author : Bertram F. Malle
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 2007-01-08
Other Minds written by Bertram F. Malle and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-08 with Psychology categories.
Leading scholars from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy present theories and findings on understanding how individuals infer such complex mental states as beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions.
Mysterious Minds
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Author : Elise Nykänen
language : en
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Mysterious Minds written by Elise Nykänen and has been published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Science categories.
This study examines the narrative tools, techniques, and structures that Marja-Liisa Vartio, a classic of Finnish post-war modernism, used in presenting fictional minds in her narrative prose. The study contributes to the academic discussion on formal and thematic conventions of modernism by addressing the ways in which fictional minds work in interaction, and in relation to the enfolding fictional world. The epistemic problem of how accurately the world, the self, and the other can be known is approached by analyzing two co-operating ways of portraying fictional minds, both from external and internal perspectives. The external perspective relies on detachment and emotional restraint dominating in Vartio’s early novels Se on sitten kevät and Mies kuin mies, tyttö kuin tyttö. The internal perspective pertains to the mental processes of self-reflection, speculation, and excessive imagining that gain more importance in her later novels Kaikki naiset näkevät unia, Tunteet, and Hänen olivat linnut. In the theoretical chapter of this study, fictional minds are discussed in the context of the acclaimed “inward turn” of modernist fiction, by suggesting alternative methods for reading modernist minds as embodied, emotional, and social entities. In respect to fictional minds’ interaction, this study elaborates on the ideas of “mind-reading,” “intersubjectivity,” and the “social mind” established within post-classical cognitive narratology. Furthermore, it employs possible world poetics when addressing the complexity, incompleteness, and (in)accessibility of Vartio’s epistemic worlds, including the characters’ private worlds of knowledge, beliefs, emotions, hallucinations, and dreams. In regards to the emotional emplotment of fictional worlds, this study also benefits from affective narratology as well as the plot theory being influenced by possible world semantics, narrative dynamics, and cognitive narratology. As the five analysis chapters of this study show, fictional minds in Vartio’s fiction are not only introspective, solipsist, and streaming, but also embodied and social entities. In the readings of the primary texts, the concept of embodiedness is used to examine the situated presence of an experiencing mind within the time and space of the storyworld. Fictional minds’ (inter)actions are also demonstrated as evolving from local experientiality to long-term calculations that turn emotional incidents into episodes, and episodes into stories. In Vartio’s novels, the emotional story structure of certain conventional story patterns, such as the narratives of female development and the romance plot, the sentimental novel, and epistolary fiction, are modified and causally altered in the portrayal of the embodied interactions between the self, the other, and the world. The trajectories of female self-discovery in Vartio’s novels are analyzed through the emotional responses of characters: their experiences of randomness, their ways of counterfactualizing their traumatic past, their procrastinatory or akratic reactions or indecisiveness. The gradual move away from the percepts of the external world to the excessive imaginings and (mis)readings of other minds (triggered by the interaction of worlds and minds), challenges the contemporary and more recent accounts of modernism both in Finnish and international contexts.
Minding Minds
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Author : Radu J. Bogdan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003-08-11
Minding Minds written by Radu J. Bogdan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-11 with Philosophy categories.
Drawing on philosophical, psychological, and evolutionary perspectives, Bogdan analyzes how primates create the resources for "metamentation"—the ability of the mind to think about its own thoughts. Mental reflexivity, or metamentation—a mind thinking about its own thoughts—underpins reflexive consciousness, deliberation, self-evaluation, moral judgment, the ability to think ahead, and much more. Yet relatively little in philosophy or psychology has been written about what metamentation actually is, or about why and how it came about. In this book, Radu Bogdan proposes that humans think reflexively because they interpret each other's minds in social contexts of cooperation, communication, education, politics, and so forth. As naive psychology, interpretation was naturally selected among primates as a battery of practical skills that preceded language and advanced thinking. Metamentation began as interpretation mentally rehearsed: through mental sharing of attitudes and information about items of common interest, interpretation conspired with mental rehearsal to develop metamentation. Drawing on philosophical, psychological, and evolutionary perspectives, Bogdan analyzes the main phylogenetic and ontogenetic stages through which primates' abilities to interpret other minds evolve and gradually create the opportunities and resources for metamentation. Contrary to prevailing views, he concludes that metamentation benefits from, but is not a predetermined outcome of, logical abilities, language, and consciousness.