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Consciousness demystified
"Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain as an objectively observed biological organ and accou…
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- 9780262349390
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- 1 online resource (viii, 199 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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How attention works :finding your way in a world full of distraction
How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other "attention architects" try hard to get our attention, promoting products with videos on huge out…
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- 9780262350976
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- 1 online resource (152 pages).
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Proxies :the cultural work of standing in
"A history of proxies and how they are made, shaped, and maintained"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236624X
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- 1 online resource.
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The feeling of life itself :why consciousness is widespread but can't be comp…
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- 9780262354424
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- 1 online resource (272 pages) :illustrations
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Evolutionary causation :biological and philosophical reflections
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- 9780262353199
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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Divine games :game theory and the undecidability of a superior being
A game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknowability of the latter's superiority.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347792
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- 1 online resource
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Documentarity :evidence, ontology, and inscription
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- 9780262356022
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- 1 online resource (184 pages).
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Carbon queen :the remarkable life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
"The first biography of the late Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer of nanoscience, a champion for women in STEM, and recipient the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368293
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- 1 online resource.
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Computational thinking
An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational biology, computational …
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- 9780262353410
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- 1 online resource (272 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution or revolution :rethinking macroeconomics after the Great recession
Leading economists discuss post--financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability. The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment of the role of m…
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- 9780262351270
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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