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Medvetandets återkomst handlar om den djupaste av alla existentiella frågor: Hur kommer det sig att vi människor kan uppleva våra liv över huvud taget? Varför har vi en inre värld? I slutet av 1990-talet satsade hjärnforskaren Christof Koch en låd...

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Evaluation is ubiquitous. This volume brings together philosophers to investigate whether there is a distinctive kind of perception that is evaluative. If so, what role does it play in evaluative knowledge, and what does its existence tell us abou...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A dazzling book . . . the new Stephen Hawking' Sunday Times 'A joy to read. . . Rovelli writes easily, vividly and brilliantly' Guardian The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on a...

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A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether o...

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In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have ...

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Hur blev vi medvetna varelser? Denna fråga har gäckat psykologer, fysiker, poeter och filosofer i århundraden. Hur har människans hjärna utvecklat dess unika förmåga till att skapa, drömma och förklara? Darwins lärjungar har länge försökt förklara...

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A yogi's guide to joy. Thought leader and visionary presents techniques to achieve absolute well-being.

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The Future of the Ancient Worldsheds new light on the evolution of consciousness from antiquity to modern times. The twelve essays in this book examine developments in human consciousness over the past five thousand years that most history books d...

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Begreppet identitet används numera flitigt inom samhällsvetenskapen. Ändå förblir det både oklart och mångtydigt. På ett levande sätt blottlägger och problematiserar "Identitet - människans gåtfulla porträtt" den mänskliga identitetens anatomi...

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An updated edition of a comprehensive study of the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things. In Panpsychism in the West, the first comprehensive study of the subject, David Skrbina argues for the importance of panp...

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Medvetandet återkomst är en berättelse om den djupaste av alla existentiella frågor: Hur kommer det sig att vi människor kan uppleva något alls, varför är vi inte zombier? I slutet av 1990-talet slog filosofen David Chalmers och hjärnforskaren Chr...

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Personligheten är inte objektivt mätbar, hon kan inte helt fångas in i ett vetenskapligt system. Bakom varje teori upptäcker vi individen, den människa som allt detta händer med. Här finner vi de djupaste och mest fundamentala frågorna om kärleken...

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Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the strange loop&qu...

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The quintessential guide to yoga assisting and hands-on teaching, introducing the art and the practice of providing yoga assists to yoga students. An invaluable resource for all yoga teachers and enthusiasts.

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'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer 'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to phy...

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Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The ...

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A successor to the acclaimed 'Music and Emotion', The Handbook of Music and Emotion provides comprehensive coverage of the field, in all its breadth and depth. As well as summarizing what is currently known about music and emotion, it will also st...

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The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of ""Simulacra et Simulation"" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving a...

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If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a "posthuman conditio...

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»Arbetet innefattar tre tematiskt och metodiskt strikt avgränsade dela r. Den första, som tar upp minnet och minnesfenomenen, präglas av en f enomenologi i den husserlska bemärkelsen av termen. Den andra, som ägn as historien, faller under en hist...

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Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This anthology of his major work contains a foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson.

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Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The 'last great mystery of science', consciousness is a topic that was banned from serious research for most of the last century, but is now...

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"The Book of Secrets" invites us to experience and experiment with everyday life through the awareness of our senses. Osho discusses 112 individual meditation techniques drawn from ancient texts - meditations that focus on consciousness ...

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For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From bestselling author, neuroscientist, and "new athe...

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Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide is the most accessible introduction to philosophy of mind available. Specifically aimed at students with no background knowledge of the subject, Ravenscroft brings together the basic concepts and major theori...

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From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, an exploration of consciousness unlike any other: the latest science framed in a dazzlingly imaginative, lavishly illustrated narrative.

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Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of e...

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This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reali...

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How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms was first published, Margaret A. Boden'...

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In On Nature and Language Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind and brain, integrating current research in linguistics into the burgeoning field of neuroscience. This 2002 volume begins with a lucid introduction...

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