The Ingenious Mind of Nature
Author | : George M. Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781489960214 |
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Author | : George M. Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781489960214 |
Author | : George M. Hall |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1489960201 |
At large, the miracle of life on earth, or our own thought processes as we contemplate and unlock the mysteries around us. This evocative perspective on nature offers food for thought to general readers and scientists alike by illuminating the ingenious patterns that influence the course of humanity and the universe.
Author | : Nathan G. Goodman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0812205618 |
An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for everyone interested in history, wit, and invention. Portioned into three sections, "Practical Schemes and Suggestions," "Diverse Experiments and Observations," and "Scientific Deductions and Conjectures," these letters discuss an extraordinary range of topics, including the art of procuring pleasant dreams, choosing eye glasses, the first human flight, the character of clouds, the behavior of oil and water, smallpox and cancer, the cause of colds, charting the Gulf Stream, and prehistoric animals of the Ohio. Culled from ponderous volumes of collected works or private collections, these engaging and unabridged letters were assembled to allow readers to discover for themselves Benjamin Franklin's vigorous personality, his humanity, and his penetrating intelligence.
Author | : Thomas Nagel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2012-11-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199919755 |
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Author | : Gregory Bateson |
Publisher | : Hampton Press (NJ) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9781572734340 |
A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.
Author | : Edward Heron-Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Cirripedia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C.D. Broad |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 685 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317833996 |
This is Volume III of eight in a collection on the Philosophy of the Mind and Language. Originally published in 1925, this text looks at alternative theories of life and mind at the level of enlightened common-sense; the Mind's knowledge of Existents and the Unconscious.
Author | : William A Wallace |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813208602 |
The Modeling of Nature provides an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of natural philosophy, psychology, logic, and epistemology.
Author | : Berit Brogaard, PhD |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 069819036X |
Did you know your brain has superpowers? Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge amount of information below our awareness, and what these gifted individuals have in common is that through practice, injury, an innate brain disorder, or even more unusual circumstances, they have managed to gain a degree of conscious access to this potent processing power. The Superhuman Mind takes us inside the lives and brains of geniuses, savants, virtuosos, and a wide variety of ordinary people who have acquired truly extraordinary talents, one way or another. Delving into the neurological underpinnings of these abilities, the authors even reveal how we can acquire some of them ourselves—from perfect pitch and lightning fast math skills to supercharged creativity. The Superhuman Mind is a book full of the fascinating science readers look for from the likes of Oliver Sacks, combined with the exhilarating promise of Moonwalking with Einstein.