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The singular revolution in cognitive science and education that is changing how we think about intelligence and the human mind. Now, in this dynamic presentation for the classroom, Howard Gardner presents MI theory and reveals what is at stake--for learning, understanding, and assessment. Setting his presentation within a sweeping history of changing ideas about the human brain and the nature of 'mental representations', Gardner powerfully contrasts...
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"Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can’t we ever get enough? Michael Easter...shows that the problem isn’t you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, and power were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern ability to easily fulfill...
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"A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build the world, learn from it, and sometimes deceive themselves. For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that our senses determine what our mind perceives. But as our understanding of neuroscience and psychology has advanced in the last few decades, a new view has emerged that has proven to be both provocative and hugely powerful--that the mind is not a passive observer,...
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"Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind—to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now. Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally...
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"Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts, Paul Thagard looks at how computers ('bots') and animals measure up to the minds of people, offering the first systematic comparison of intelligence across machines, animals, and humans....
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"In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood,...
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"What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings—beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence. But as it approaches, it also gets weirder: rather than a friend or helpmate, AI increasingly appears as something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us. At the same time, we’re...
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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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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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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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Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is it true that men and women have different brains?...
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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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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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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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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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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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