A Mind So Rare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mind So Rare write by Merlin Donald. This book was released on 2002. A Mind So Rare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Donald (psychology, Queen's University, Canada) challenges the prevailing view that seeks to explain away human consciousness and presents a theory on the origins of the modern mind. He describes the cultural and neuronal forces that power human modes of awareness, and proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of the interweaving of the brain with an invisible symbolic web of culture to form a "distributed" cognitive network. Using evidence from brain and behavioral studies of humans and animals, he explains how an expansion of consciousness transcends the limitations of the mammalian mind, and elaborates the foundations of self-evaluation and self-reflection. c. Book News Inc.
Origins of the Modern Mind
Origins of the Modern Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins of the Modern Mind write by Merlin Donald. This book was released on 1993-03-15. Origins of the Modern Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.
The Way We Think
The Way We Think - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way We Think write by Gilles Fauconnier. This book was released on 2008-08-06. The Way We Think available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition -- the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that all learning and all thinking consist of blends of metaphors based on simple bodily experiences. These blends are then themselves blended together into an increasingly rich structure that makes up our mental functioning in modern society. A child's entire development consists of learning and navigating these blends. The Way We Think shows how this blending operates; how it is affected by (and gives rise to) language, identity, and concept of category; and the rules by which we use blends to understand ideas that are new to us. The result is a bold, exciting, and accessible new view of how the mind works.
Shadows of the Mind
Shadows of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows of the Mind write by Roger Penrose. This book was released on 1994. Shadows of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within scientifically comprehensive physical laws.
A Beauty So Rare (A Belmont Mansion Novel Book #2)
A Beauty So Rare (A Belmont Mansion Novel Book #2) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Beauty So Rare (A Belmont Mansion Novel Book #2) write by Tamera Alexander. This book was released on 2014-03-25. A Beauty So Rare (A Belmont Mansion Novel Book #2) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pink is not what Eleanor Braddock ordered, but maybe it would soften the tempered steel of a woman who came through a war--and still had one to fight. Plain, practical Eleanor Braddock knows she will never marry, but with a dying soldier's last whisper, she believes her life can still have meaning and determines to find his widow. Impoverished and struggling to care for her ailing father, Eleanor arrives at Belmont Mansion, home of her aunt, Adelicia Acklen, the richest woman in America--and possibly the most demanding, as well. Adelicia insists on finding her niece a husband, but a simple act of kindness leads Eleanor down a far different path--building a home for destitute widows and fatherless children from the Civil War. While Eleanor knows her own heart, she also knows her aunt will never approve of this endeavor. Archduke Marcus Gottfried has come to Nashville from Austria in search of a life he determines, instead of one determined for him. Hiding his royal heritage, Marcus longs to combine his passion for nature with his expertise in architecture, but his plans to incorporate natural beauty into the design of the widows' and children's home run contrary to Eleanor's wishes. As work on the home draws them closer together, Marcus and Eleanor find common ground--and a love neither of them expects. But Marcus is not the man Adelicia has chosen for Eleanor, and even if he were, someone who knows his secrets is about to reveal them all. From USA Today bestselling author Tamera Alexander comes a moving historical novel about a bold young woman drawn to a group of people forgotten by Nashville society--and to the one man with whom she has no business falling in love.
