Tag: Consciousness

Free Download Mild Altered States of Consciousness: Subtle Shifts of Mind and Their Therapeutic Potential by Eileen Sheppard
English | PDF (True) | 2024 | 318 Pages | ISBN : 3031534514 | 5.3 MB
This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (ASCs) experienced in everyday life. While research into consciousness and particularly ASCs is growing, this book focuses on a neglected area: ‘everyday’ experiences of ASCs. Opening with an up-to-date overview of the development of the study of ASCs, the author presents an in-depth empirical exploration and mapping of mild ASCs. Dr Sheppard examines original research conducted in a range of religious and secular contexts with participants who were engaged in activities including prayer, sport, nature conservation, music and musical instrument making, and TV viewing.

Free Download A.J.N. Mohanty, "Lectures on Consciousness and Interpretation: Edited with an Introduction by Tara Chatterjee"
English | ISBN: 0195698517 | 2009 | 177 pages | PDF | 14 MB
J.N. Mohanty is one of the most distinguished philosophers India has produced in recent years. Written mostly in the 21st century, this collection deals with the nature of consciousness and its interpretation. Starting from the concept of consciousness as an event in time, he investigates the notion of consciousness as a social phenomenon. The temporality and historicity of consciousness are also emphasized. He examines experiences from various walks of life, from religion to quantum physics, from interpretation of perception to that of sacred Indian texts to demonstrate his theory. The introduction locates Mohanty’s work in the larger context of philosophical discourses in the West and India.

Free Download History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by György Lukács, translated by Rodney Livingstone
English | November 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1804295698 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 0.7 MB
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs’ early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat. Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukacs evaluated the influence of this book as follows:

Free Download Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought
by Lorne Falkenstein
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103267783X | 339 Pages | True PDF | 2.85 MB

Free Download Lorne Falkenstein, "Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought "
English | ISBN: 103267783X | 2024 | 338 pages | EPUB | 1280 KB
David Hume’s philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief. This book reconciles this conflict by showing that Hume intended his scepticism to be remedial. It immunizes us against the influence of "unphilosophical" causes of belief, determining us to proportion our beliefs to the evidence.

Free Download Consciousness and Creativity in Artificial Intelligence
by Jon-Arild Johannessen;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1804551627 | 153 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.62 MB

Free Download Consciousness and Creativity in Artificial Intelligence
by Jon-Arild Johannessen;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1804551627 | 153 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.62 MB

Free Download Consciousness: How our brains turn matter into meaning by John Parrington
English | December 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1837730784 | 208 pages | PDF | 1.36 Mb
What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads?Where do imaginative, creative, or spiritual thoughts come from – can these really be the product of nerve impulses in the brain? And is the human mind radically different from that of other species, or is our uniqueness more superficial than real? In this book, Oxford biologist John Parrington proposes a radical new theory of human consciousness, arguing that a qualitative leap in consciousness occurred during human evolution as language and tool use transformed our brains. Rejecting outdated views of the brain as a hard-wired circuit diagram, he draws on the latest insights from neuroscience to show that meaning is created within our heads through a dynamic interaction of oscillating brain waves. This new model of consciousness not only provides a material basis of our innermost thoughts but also explains why the mind can sometimes go wrong, causing deep mental distress.

Free Download As consciousness is harnessed to flesh : journals and notebooks, 1964-1980 By Sontag, Susan; Sontag, Susan; Rieff, David
2012 | 523 Pages | ISBN: 0374100764 | EPUB | 1 MB
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer’s artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the Reagan era.

Free Download David J. Bennett, "Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness"
English | ISBN: 026202778X | 2014 | 409 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Philosophers and cognitive scientists address the relationships among the senses and the connections between conscious experiences that form unified wholes.