Product Description: The science and practice of feeling our movements, sensations, and emotions. When we are first born, before we can speak or use language to express ourselves, we use our physical sensations, our “body sense,” to guide us toward what makes us feel safe and fulfilled and away from what makes us feel bad...read more

Product Description: This interdisciplinary work contains the most sustained attempt at developing and defending one of the few genuine theories of consciousness. Following the lead of David Rosenthal, the author argues for the so-called 'higher-order thought theory of consciousness'...read more

Product Description: The overarching goal of the present study was to trace the development of mirror self-recognition (MSR), as an index oftoddlers’ sense of themselves and others as autonomous intentional agents, in different sociocultural environments.

Product Description: University professor, psychotherapist and recovering former nightclub owner Dr. Nicholas Kardaras presents a mind blowing, reality rocking, and life changing approach to Greek philosophy. Having once owned celebrity-studded NY nightclubs where he had mingled with the likes of JFK, Jr...read more

Ray Kurzweil, the bold futurist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Near, is arguably today’s most influential technological visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a Mind, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and compelling thought experiments, he describes his new theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern recognizers. Kurzweil shows how these insights will enable us to greatly extend the powers of our own mind and provides a road map for the creation of super-intelligence―humankind’s most exciting next venture. We are now at the dawn of an era of radical possibilities in which merging with our technology will enable us to effectively address the world’s grand challenges.How to Create a Mind is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books in many years―a touchstone for any consideration of the path of human progress.

Product Description: Ray Kurzweil, the bold futurist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Near, is arguably today’s most influential technological visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities...read more

Product Description: Wer immer Gedanken, Gefuhle, Wahrnehmungen, Wunsche oder Empfindungen hat, weiss auch, dass er selbst diese Zustande hat. Diese Annahme hat in der philosophischen Beschaftigung mit dem Selbstbewusstsein eine lange Tradition. Doch welche Bedingungen mussen erfullt sein, damit ein Wissen von sich selbst ermoglicht wird? Das Buch erbringt den Nachweis, dass Selbstbewusstsein nur unter intersubjektiven Bedingungen moglich ist...read more

Product Description: For the busy business executive, the never-ceasing demands associated with work, and life, can place a relentless push and pull on our time and attention. Our world is moving so fast, we are apt to miss much of what is happening ''right now...read more