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"If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, shows how groups of people working together in superminds--like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities--have been responsible for almost all...
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In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule--what scientists know for sure about how our brains work--and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he proves that most...
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About the Game. This game is all about consciousness and the philosophies of science. The game displaying consciousness can give pleasure, as can the player becoming conscious of what they are doing in the game. Since the main objectives in video games are always to be conscious, and the most scientific video game would be about the fundamental pieces of our universe, we will play as though any of them have or need to get some form of consciousness....
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What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?
Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or how it works. The gap between what the brain does and the mind experiences remains uncharted territory. Nevertheless, with powerful new tools such as the fMRI...
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Countless books have been written about the process of healing the brain from traumatic situations. But Answers Unleashed: The Science of Unleashing Your Brain's Power by Olympia LePoint is the first self-help neuroscience book written by an award-winning rocket scientist who overcame her own life challenges to launch 28 NASA Space Shuttle missions into Space. Scientist Olympia LePoint defines a new structure of the brain, called the Triabrain and...
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Mind Code describes how we know the world we live in and how language and semantics shape this knowledge by influencing the way we think, feel, and behave - how we relate to that world and to others. Mind Code puts life as we know it into a coherent, systematic perspective that explains functional relations and processes across biological organisms, natural language, brains, and the physical world. The concept of a mind code comes from deciphering...
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Where did everything that we perceive come from? If there is an answer, from where did the resulting answer come? Keep asking these questions and see where it takes you. There is a theoretical answer to this question that will take the reader into a new world of possibilities.|The Theory of Potential hypothesizes that the reality we perceive may not be what we think. The Theory suggests that we may exist in an infinite maze of possible outcomes.
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Summary of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths | Includes Analysis Preview: Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is an immersive look at the history and development of several algorithms used to solve computer science problems. It also considers potential applications of algorithms in human life including memory storage and network communication. One such computer science problem is the optimal stopping...
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Hoy en el mundo se juegan alrededor de 3000-millones de horas de videojuegos por semana. El interés y los afectos de jóvenes y también de adultos migraron hacia el mundo virtual. ¿Qué hacer con un hijo que se pasa horas frente a la pantalla construyendo aldeas y personajes o embarcándose en aventuras fantásticas junto con desconocidos? ¿Hay que resignarse a la idea de que los videojuegos son sólo formas de escapismo que condenan a la alienación...
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Ciertamente esta etapa de la vida supone un equilibrio inestable entre cabeza, corazón y desarrollo de las capacidades propias. Los procesamientos cognitivos, emocionales y ejecutivos tienen diferente velocidad, y su maduración lleva diferente ritmo. Integrar estos sistemas y regularlos requiere estrategias adecuadas de control.
Con un lenguaje sencillo, la autora introduce al lector en el complejo proceso de maduración del cerebro humano. La...
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This is a book about math and physics and how biology and psychology come directly from them. In physics we will cover Newtonian Mechanics, Gravitational Waves, Special Relativity, Electromagnetism, Orbitals, Quantum Mechanics, Multiverses, the Calabi-Yau manifold as a template for the brain and we will also cover Topology. They will be straightforward as well as mathematically rigorous. Imagination will help get rid of mysticism and there are Layman's...
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Qui sommes-nous? Que pouvons-nous savoir? Que nous est-il permis d'espérer? En réfléchissant à ces trois questions classiques, Noam Chomsky présente dans cet essai un tour d'horizon de l'ensemble de sa pensée.
Revenant sur sa conception du langage et de l'esprit, puis de la société et de la politique, Noam Chomsky conclut son brillant exposé par un plaidoyer pour ce qu'il appelle le «socialisme libertaire», qu'il lie à l'anarchisme et...
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Buddhism and Science brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Eastern spirituality. This compilation was inspired by a suggestion made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, himself one of the contributors, after one of a series of cross-cultural scientific dialogues in Dharamsala, India, sponsored by the Mind and...
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The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about human evolution but that may hold the key to understanding why humans evolved as we did, leaving all other related species far behind.
At a chance meeting in 2005, Brower, a geneticist,...
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Enhance your logic, reason, judgment, and wisdom. Increase your ability to create concise and reasoned arguments using data and evidence, to get a genuine conclusion.
The Systems Thinker, Analytical Skills aims to raise the level of your mental performance by focusing on the fundamentals of how to use your mind effectively. This book will show you how to:
• Increase your ability to analyze problems and to comprehend what you read, hear, experience...
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Dans ce livre, nous plongeons dans le monde fascinant de la recherche sur la fusion nucléaire et examinons de près le projet international ambitieux qu'est ITER. Ce livre captivant vous emmène au cœur des découvertes scientifiques, des défis techniques et des enjeux politiques qui entourent la réalisation de la fusion nucléaire contrlée.Le récit commence par une exploration des fondements de la fusion nucléaire, démystifiant les principes...
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La creatividad es una capacidad potencialmente presente, de las más variadas formas, en cada persona y culturas. Una poderosa herramienta para plantear y resolver problemas, diseñar el presente y pensar en el futuro. Ligada a todos los aspectos de la experiencia termina siendo un recurso infinito. Mientras más se recurre a la creatividad, más se perfecciona y se dispone de ella.
En la historia de la humanidad la creatividad ha abarcado un amplio...