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  • Cutting the Gordian Knot: Simple Solutions to Complex Societal Problems

    de Stanley Korn ...
    Each of the 39 chapters in this book addresses a different problem. The chapter begins with a description of the problem, followed by a discussion of the previous attempts to solve it, and an explanation of why such attempts have fallen short. A solution is then presented that addresses these shortcomings.Along the way, challenge questions related to the problem at hand are presented to the reader ... Leer más

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  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Beyond

    de Stanley Korn ...
    These stories run the gamut from hard science fiction to pure fantasy, with elements of humor, romance, and the paranormal thrown into the mix. One of them straddles the boundary between fantasy and conventional fiction. Providing further details would require a spoiler alert.If you enjoy reading these stories as much as I did writing them, you're in for a real treat! ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Refutation of Physicalism and a Proof of the Existence of the Soul

    de Stanley Korn ...
    There are two schools of thought regarding the nature of consciousness. There's physicalism, which provides the philosophical basis of modern science, which holds that consciousness is solely a product of brain activity, and more generally, that mind is an epiphenomenon of matter, that is, derivable from and reducible to matter, where I'm using the term of matter in the sense of modern physics to ... Leer más

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  • Original Games and Novel Game Variations

    de Stanley Korn ...
    Black Box is a game designed to simulate the process of scientific discovery. One of the players assumes the role of Nature and devises a process. The other players, acting in the role of scientists, attempt to discover Nature's process by performing simulated experiments by providing Nature with inputs and observing the corresponding outputs produced by Nature. One of the benefits of playing ... Leer más

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  • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning: Why We Are So Unhappy

    de Iain McGilchrist ...
    In this 10,000-word essay, written to complement Iain McGilchrist's acclaimed The Master and His Emissary, the author asks why - despite the vast increase in material well-being - people are less happy today than they were half a century ago, and suggests that the division between the two hemispheres of the brain has a critical effect on how we see and understand the world around us. In particular ... Leer más

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  • I Am a Strange Loop

    de Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    **One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from – and how our selves can exist in the minds of others.“I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it’s also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of Magical Thinking for mathematicians.” ―Time**Deep down, your brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles. On a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

    de Daniel C. Dennett ...
    One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... Leer más

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  • Surfaces and Essences

    Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

    de Emmanuel Sander, Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    A revelatory foray into cognition and the dynamics of the mind.**“*****Surfaces and Essences *****warrants a place alongside Gödel, Escher, Bach and major recent treatments of human cognition. Analogy is not the endpoint of understanding, but its indispensable beginning.” –**ScienceAnalogy is the core of all thinking.This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer ... ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Reality+

    Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

    de David J. Chalmers ...
    **One of the Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it.**Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He ... Leer más

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  • A Mathematician's Lament

    How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

    de Paul Lockhart ...
    “One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” —Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy”A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching ... Leer más

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  • Labyrinths of Reason

    Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge

    Edición de William Poundstone ...
    This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant. ... Leer más

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  • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

    de William Goldbloom Bloch ...
    "The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's ... Leer más

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