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The old man's home

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William Adams's The Old Man's Home is a reflective and humane work that examines aging, belonging, and the emotional meaning of home in later life. The book appears to move beyond simple domestic description, using the old man's dwelling as both a literal setting and a symbolic space in which memory, loss, dignity, and endurance are tested. Stylistically, Adams writes in a measured, observant ... Read more

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William Adams's The Old Man's Home is a reflective and humane work that examines aging, belonging, and the emotional meaning of home in later life. The book appears to move beyond simple domestic description, using the old man's dwelling as both a literal setting and a symbolic space in which memory, loss, dignity, and endurance are tested. Stylistically, Adams writes in a measured, observant
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The Subjective View

by William X. Adams ...

The Subjective View is about subjectivity, the "what it is like" to have experience. The point of view is first-person, direct observation of the mind by introspection and related methods, using principled, consensus-constrained methodology. Contemporary psychology focuses almost entirely on objects, situations, and measurable variables, neglecting subjective experience. Neuroscience and general ... Read more

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The Subjective View is about subjectivity, the "what it is like" to have experience. The point of view is first-person, direct observation of the mind by introspection and related methods, using principled, consensus-constrained methodology. Contemporary psychology focuses almost entirely on objects, situations, and measurable variables, neglecting subjective experience. Neuroscience and general
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Polters

The Polter Series, #1

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 1 - The Polter Series
Clay, a young Portland photographer, devastated by the recent murder of his girlfriend, Lane, boards a midnight ferry across the river to Bardonia, a town full of the city's recently deceased, called Polters. The residents there are in chaos since their way forward, the train station, is blocked by a reactionary gang. As he searches for Lane in the land of the dead, he meets Ella, a Polter, and is ... Read more

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Clay, a young Portland photographer, devastated by the recent murder of his girlfriend, Lane, boards a midnight ferry across the river to Bardonia, a town full of the city's recently deceased, called Polters. The residents there are in chaos since their way forward, the train station, is blocked by a reactionary gang. As he searches for Lane in the land of the dead, he meets Ella, a Polter, and is
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Attic Polters

Polters, #2

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 2 - Polters
Bronze Winner: Best Fantasy of 2024. ReaderViews dot com"Polters are people like us, only dead. Except they don't admit that…We say dead. But they say they're just another kind of person…"Nikki Powers, a researcher in Oregon, is interested in people's beliefs about ghosts. When actual ghosts, or "Polters," appear in the attics of Portland houses, she must decide what she believes. Her boyfriend, ... Read more

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Bronze Winner: Best Fantasy of 2024. ReaderViews dot com"Polters are people like us, only dead. Except they don't admit that…We say dead. But they say they're just another kind of person…"Nikki Powers, a researcher in Oregon, is interested in people's beliefs about ghosts. When actual ghosts, or "Polters," appear in the attics of Portland houses, she must decide what she believes. Her boyfriend,
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Alien Panic

Phane, #2

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Series Book 2 - Phane
Lou Buck, ex-cop, is the off-center main character (like Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby). Lou searches for his kidnapped daughter, Lacey, and in Reno meets a muscular bald man, Phane, who claims to be extraterrestrial. Lou thinks he's a nut until the man transforms into a large green tennis ball with arms, legs, and eyestalks. Phane was abandoned by his commander to die on Earth, but he and Lou team ... Read more

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Lou Buck, ex-cop, is the off-center main character (like Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby). Lou searches for his kidnapped daughter, Lacey, and in Reno meets a muscular bald man, Phane, who claims to be extraterrestrial. Lou thinks he's a nut until the man transforms into a large green tennis ball with arms, legs, and eyestalks. Phane was abandoned by his commander to die on Earth, but he and Lou team
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Alien Talk

Newcomers, #2

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 2 - Newcomers
Alien Talk (sci-fi, 82,500 words): As millions of people become mute in a spreading pandemic, android Robin Taylor discovers that language is an intelligent virus that infected early humans and ultimately enabled modern civilization. Now the virus is enraged by the false language of talking technologies. But Robin is a talking gadget herself. Anyone she communicates with is stricken. Can she warn ... Read more

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Alien Talk (sci-fi, 82,500 words): As millions of people become mute in a spreading pandemic, android Robin Taylor discovers that language is an intelligent virus that infected early humans and ultimately enabled modern civilization. Now the virus is enraged by the false language of talking technologies. But Robin is a talking gadget herself. Anyone she communicates with is stricken. Can she warn
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Reluctant Android: First in the Newcomers Series

Newcomers, #1

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 1 - Newcomers
Andy Bolton, a software engineer in Seattle, feels like just a regular guy but evidence mounts that he is actually a robot. His boss, Lucy, wants to capture him and take him apart for study. On the run, Andy finds his creator and learns he is neither human nor simple machine. He reluctantly accepts that he is something in between, a sentient AI device. He needs to explain this to his nemesis, Lucy ... Read more

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Andy Bolton, a software engineer in Seattle, feels like just a regular guy but evidence mounts that he is actually a robot. His boss, Lucy, wants to capture him and take him apart for study. On the run, Andy finds his creator and learns he is neither human nor simple machine. He reluctantly accepts that he is something in between, a sentient AI device. He needs to explain this to his nemesis, Lucy
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Nothing in Mind

Discovering the Mind, #4

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 4 - Discovering the Mind
Every night, you mentally disappear for several hours. During dreamless sleep, you are not present to yourself. You have no thoughts, no experience, no point of view. You enter a period mental emptiness, a Black Hole of Nothingness. In the morning, you wake up and resume life as if nothing unusual had happened. But something unusual did happen. You literally lost your mind for several hours. ... Read more

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Every night, you mentally disappear for several hours. During dreamless sleep, you are not present to yourself. You have no thoughts, no experience, no point of view. You enter a period mental emptiness, a Black Hole of Nothingness. In the morning, you wake up and resume life as if nothing unusual had happened. But something unusual did happen. You literally lost your mind for several hours.
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Death in Mind

Discovering the Mind, #5

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 5 - Discovering the Mind
Nobody really knows what it's like to die. In the context of personal experience, an investigation into death would seem to be a dead-end.However, Black Holes of Nothingness (BHNs) perforate normal experience. Most are unremarkable such as dreamless sleep, anesthetic blackout, and the nothingness in some kinds of meditation.Since all BHNs are basically the same (nothing), maybe death is just ... Read more

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Nobody really knows what it's like to die. In the context of personal experience, an investigation into death would seem to be a dead-end.However, Black Holes of Nothingness (BHNs) perforate normal experience. Most are unremarkable such as dreamless sleep, anesthetic blackout, and the nothingness in some kinds of meditation.Since all BHNs are basically the same (nothing), maybe death is just
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Mind, Body, World

Discovering the Mind, #3

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 3 - Discovering the Mind
Why do we have bodies? We lug over a hundred pounds of meat and water with us everywhere we go. Wouldn't life be easier, more elegant, without that? It's the mystery of the mind and the body.Our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world, but how? If you dissect a brain, you see only gray and white tissue. You find no words, songs, pictures, memories, or colors. Where did the ... Read more

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Why do we have bodies? We lug over a hundred pounds of meat and water with us everywhere we go. Wouldn't life be easier, more elegant, without that? It's the mystery of the mind and the body.Our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world, but how? If you dissect a brain, you see only gray and white tissue. You find no words, songs, pictures, memories, or colors. Where did the
... Read more
Intelligent Things

Newcomers

by William X. Adams ...

Series series Newcomers
Engineer Jennifer Valentine releases advanced AI assistants called NODs to revolutionize the internet of things. A NOD will have a conversation with you on any device then dart off to do whatever chores you have assigned among networked devices. But the NODs eventually get ideas of their own and suddenly Jennifer must save the national power grid from disaster. Robin and Andy, the advanced AI ... Read more

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Engineer Jennifer Valentine releases advanced AI assistants called NODs to revolutionize the internet of things. A NOD will have a conversation with you on any device then dart off to do whatever chores you have assigned among networked devices. But the NODs eventually get ideas of their own and suddenly Jennifer must save the national power grid from disaster. Robin and Andy, the advanced AI
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Mind Without Brain: A Proposal

Discovering the Mind, #2

by William X. Adams ...

Series Book 2 - Discovering the Mind
Is the mind the same thing as the brain? Not at all. The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. It is no different in principle than a kidney or a liver. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up no space. They're not even physical.Does the brain produce the mind? It can't. There is no scientific theory of how a physical ... Read more

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Is the mind the same thing as the brain? Not at all. The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. It is no different in principle than a kidney or a liver. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up no space. They're not even physical.Does the brain produce the mind? It can't. There is no scientific theory of how a physical
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