i-Minds
Author: Mari Swingle
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2016-06-14
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0865718253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Constant connectivity is rewiring our brains – this is your survival guide for the digital era
Author: Mari Swingle
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2016-06-14
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0865718253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Constant connectivity is rewiring our brains – this is your survival guide for the digital era
Author: Stan Franklin
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780262561099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stan Franklin is the perfect tour guide through the contemporary interdisciplinary matrix of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial neural networks, artificial life, and robotics that is producing a new paradigm of mind. Along the way, Franklin makes the case for a perspective that rejects a rigid distinction between mind and non-mind in favor of a continuum from less to more mind.
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9780140062533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ian Hughes
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2018-09-28
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1785358812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Disordered Minds offers a compelling and timely account of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders, and provides a stark warning that the conditions in which this psychopathy flourishes - extremes of social inequality and a culture of hyper-individualism - are the hallmarks of our present age. 'An excellent account of how malignant narcissism is evident in the lives of the great dictators, and how the conditions in which this psychopathy flourishes have returned to haunt us.' Dr Kieran Keohane, editor of The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
Author: James Dashner
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0375984631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world is virtual, but the danger is real in book one of the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series, the next phenomenon from the author of the Maze Runner series, James Dashner. Includes a sneak peek of The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series—the novel that finally reveals how the maze was built! The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and the more hacking skills you have, the more fun it is. Why bother following the rules when it’s so easy to break them? But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And one gamer has been doing exactly that, with murderous results. The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker. And they’ve been watching Michael. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid, to the back alleys and corners of the system human eyes have never seen—and it’s possible that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever. The author who brought you the #1 New York Times bestselling MAZE RUNNER series and two #1 movies—The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials—now brings you an electrifying adventure trilogy an edge-of-your-seat adventure that takes you into a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyber terrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares. Praise for the Bestselling MORTALITY DOCTRINE series: “Dashner takes full advantage of the Matrix-esque potential for asking ‘what is real.’” —io9.com “Set in a world taken over by virtual reality gaming, the series perfectly capture[s] Dashner’s hallmarks for inventiveness, teen dialogue and an ability to add twists and turns like no other author.” —MTV.com “A brilliant, visceral, gamified mash-up of The Matrix and Inception, guaranteed to thrill even the non-gaming crowd.” —Christian Science Monitor
Author: Melvin D. Levine
Publisher: Educators Publishing Service, Incorporated
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838820902
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Author: Joel Gold
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 143918156X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combines true case stories with the latest research in a tour of the delusion-afflicted human mind to explore how it reflects neuroscience, biology and culture, tracing the sources of paranoia and psychosis to faulty interactions between the brain and the social world. 35,000 first printing.
Author: David J. Buller
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006-02-17
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 0262524600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was—that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology—the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire—and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided. Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence. Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.
Author: Deirdre V. Lovecky
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 1853029645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behaviour and relationships at home and at school.
Author: Andrea A. DiSessa
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780262541329
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