Tag: Explaining

Brain, Self and Consciousness Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience (2024)


Free Download Sangeetha Menon, "Brain, Self and Consciousness: Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 3)"
English | 2013 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 813221580X, 813223488X | PDF | 2,0 mb
This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. It develops a novel approach in consciousness studies by charting the pathways in which the brain challenges the self and the self challenges the brain. The author argues that the central issue in brain studies is to explain the unity, continuity, and adherence of experience, whether it is sensory or mental awareness, phenomenal- or self-consciousness. To address such a unity is to understand mutual challenges that the brain and the self pose for each other. The fascinating discussions that this book presents are: How do the brain and self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?

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Why Explaining the Holocaust


Free Download Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes, Don Hagen, Gildan Media, LLC
English | 2017 | ISBN: B0735XG2K1 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 13 hours and 21 minutes + EPUB | 186 Mb
Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.
Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the 20th century still seems elusive even 70 years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions-yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike.

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Explaining Money & Banking


Free Download Explaining Money & Banking
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1637424671 | 256 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
Money matters got a lot scarier in 2020 and there is no end to the volatility in sight. Crisis means danger but also opportunity. To turn a profit during the next bust, or the next burst of inflation, individual investors and businesspeople must understand the economics of money, banking, and finance.

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