Learn IT - Books tags consciousness

30 Days to a More Powerful Memory

AMACOM, 2007

Everyone wants a better memory—and in today’s information-filled, multitasking age, having a good memory is more important than ever. Whether you need to keep track of your e-mail messages, impress the boss, give a speech, organize a busy social schedule, remember whom you met where and when, or anything else, a good memory is a...

The 7 Steps of Spiritual Intelligence : The Practical Pursuit of Purpose, Success and Happiness

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005

Through the 7 steps outlined in this text, along with explanations through positive psychology and brain science, as well as real-life case studies, learn to unite brain and consciousness to realize your maximum potential.

Spiritual intelligence (SQ) is about discovering the “why” of what we do...

Computational Mind: A Complex Dynamics Perspective (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2007

Computational Mind: A Complex Dynamics Perspective is a graduate–level monographic textbook in the field of Computational Intelligence. It presents a modern dynamical theory of the computational mind, combining cognitive psychology, artificial and computational intelligence, and chaos theory with quantum consciousness and computation. The...

50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2008

This Festschrift volume, published in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence, includes 34 refereed papers written by leading researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The papers were carefully selected from the invited lectures given at the 50th Anniversary Summit of AI, held at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte...

Belief and Beyond: Adventures in Consciousness from the Upanishads to Modern Times

HarperCollins, 2020

Belief and Beyond delves into the realm of the mystic - Adi Sankara, Allama Prabhu, Kabir, Nagarjuna, Gaudapada, Akka Mahadevi, Lalleshwari, Anandamayi Ma, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Jiddu Krishnamurti, U.G. Krishnamurti, and the Buddha - bringing to life their spiritual quests and the...

Control Techniques for Complex Networks

Cambridge University Press, 2007

A representative of a major publishing house is on her way home from a conference in Singapore, excited about the possibility of a new book series. On the flight home to New York she opens her blackberry organizer, adding names of new contacts, and is disappointed to realize she may have caught the bug that was bothering her friend Alex at the...

Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

W W Norton, 2019

How do we determine right from wrong? Conscience illuminates the answer through science and philosophy.

In her brilliant work Touching a Nerve, Patricia S. Churchland, the distinguished founder of neurophilosophy, drew from scientific research on the brain to understand its...

Kanzi's Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's work on the language capabilities of the bonobo Kanzi has intrigued the world because of its far-reaching implications for understanding the evolution of the human language. This book takes the reader behind the scenes of the filmed language tests. It argues that while the tests prove that Kanzi has language, the...

Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep

Oxford University Press, 2004

"A cool outline of modern knowledge about dreams...and an explanation of what is really happening in our brains when we dream.... Throughout he uses his own dreams, recorded over many years, as examples while showing how the science of sleep has evolved over the past 50 years. Along the way, Freud takes a battering."--New Scientist
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206 Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan)

Scribner, 2009

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the Fox television hit, Bones, returns with a spectacular new Tempe Brennan novel.

There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of...

Fashion as Photograph: Viewing and Reviewing Images of Fashion

I. B. Tauris, 2008

Photographic images play a key role in defining global fashion culture and in charting its discursive space. They are seen by many as the driving force behind the fashion system, with cultural pundits and industry creatives heralding the photograph as fashion’s ‘ultimate signifier’ (Saville in Burgoyne 2002: 36). Since the early...

More than Nature Needs: Language, Mind, and Evolution

Harvard University Press, 2014

The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural selection. Darwin thought use of...

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