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Perplexities of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295338
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- 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
"In 2000, the Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical applications of which include light-emitting diodes, rapid transistors, and the microchip. Alferov's Nobel Prize was the culmination of a career that spanned the eras of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev--and continues today in the post-…
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- 9780262289528
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- 1 online resource (307 pages) :illustrations.
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The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
A militant Marxist atheist and a "Radical Orthodox" Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262254816
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- 1 online resource (311 pages).
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Consciousness Revisited: Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts
We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? This book looks at this question and much more.
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- 9780262255172
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Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World
The world is made up of structures too small to see with the naked eye, too small to see even with an electron microscope. Einstein established the reality of atoms and molecules in the early 1900s. How can we see a world measured in fractions of nanometers? (Most atoms are less than one nanometer, less than one-billionth of a meter, in diameter.) This beautiful and fascinating book gives us a …
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- 9780262322522
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Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives
"A Bradford Book."A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscienc…
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- 9780262305204
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, Andre Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital techno…
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- 9780262259095
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- 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages).
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Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals
Here, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289726
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- 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) :illustrations.
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Artificial Chemistries
The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmi…
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- 9780262329460
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- 1 online resource (xv, 555 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Language and Equilibrium
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281263
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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