Donald Hoffman - Böcker

Kan vi lita på att våra sinnen återger en sann bild av verkligheten? På tvärs med vedertagna teorier hävdar Donald Hoffman att evolutionen inte utformat våra sinnen till att återge verkligheten på ett sanningsenligt sätt, utan snarare på sätt som ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world arou...

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Kan vi lita på att våra sinnen återger en sann bild av verkligheten? Svaret på denna klassiska filosofiska fråga har sedan evolutionsteorins genombrott varit otvetydigt jakande. Men på tvärs med vedertagna vetenskapliga teorier hävdar kognitionsve...

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Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman's exploration of the extraordinary creative genius of the mind's eye "has many virtues, of which sheer intellectual excitement is the foremost" (Nature). Hoffman explains that far from being a passive r...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world aroun...

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Drawing on thirty years of Hoffman's own research, as well as work in evolutionary biology, game theory, neuroscience, computer science, information theory, and philosophy, The Case Against Reality explains why the world is nothing like what we se...

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Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why ...

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The legend of King Arthur has embedded itself in British and American culture. Twentieth century and contemporary America, in particular, has proved to be a rich breeding ground for the Arthurian mythos, not only in films, novels, short stories, a...

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Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in perception: * space -- referring to attempts to represent the subjective space within which we locate ...

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Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in perception: * space -- referring to attempts to represent the subjective space within which we locate ...

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Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in perception: * space -- referring to attempts to represent the subjective space within which we locate ...

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Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in perception: * space -- referring to attempts to represent the subjective space within which we locate ...

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The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became ju...

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ACC believes its current methodology for predicting the reliability of its Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) and Advanced Cruise Missile (ACM) stockpiles could be improved. They require a predictive model that delivers the best possible 24-month ...

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PRTs: How Do We Know if They Work? Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTR) programs have become central to the US and NATO efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and will continue to play a key role in any operational plan effort during...

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The legend of King Arthur is embedded in British and American culture. Contemporary America, in particular, is a rich breeding ground for the Arthurian mythos, not only in films, novels, short stories, and fantasy and science fiction, but in other...

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Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of perception. This book provides an approach to the study of perception that attempts to be both general and rigorous.Organized into 10 ch...

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This is the story of a woman overcoming the odds to minister to a suffering community outside the church. The model of Spiritual Accompaniment, which she developed for her ministry, changed her own life, along with the lives of those with whom she...

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Virginia and I accidentally ran into each other at the Christian school we were attending. As I glanced into her crystal-blue eyes, she captured my heart. She had a radiance that made her stand out from all the other girls. I had been praying the ...

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IIIIVirginia and I accidentally ran into each other at the Christian school we were attending. As I glanced into her crystal-blue eyes, she captured my heart. She had a radiance that made her stand out from all the other girls. I had been praying ...

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Big-Idea-Buch, das die Grenzen zwischen Neurologie, Computerwissenschaft und Philosophie neu auslotet Nur weil der Mensch in der Lage ist, ein Raubtier blitzartig als solches zu erkennen, gibt es unsere Spezies überhaupt noch - dagegen wäre die Fä...

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Big-Idea-Buch, das die Grenzen zwischen Neurologie, Computerwissenschaft und Philosophie neu auslotetNur weil der Mensch in der Lage ist, ein Raubtier blitzartig als solches zu erkennen, gibt es unsere Spezies berhaupt noch - dagegen wre die Fhigk...

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The safety of vehicle traffic depends on how well automotive lighting supports the visual perception of the driver. This book explains the fundamentals of visual perception, like e.g. physiology of eye and brain, as well as those of automotive lig...

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It is possible to buy excellent books on human vision as well as about automotive lighting. Unfortunately, these books have little or no common content. But in fact these fields do overlap. Providing optimal conditions for human vision is what aut...

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The safety of vehicle traffic depends on how well automotive lighting supports the visual perception of the driver. This book explains the fundamentals of visual perception, like e.g. physiology of eye and brain, as well as those of automotive lig...

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