Tag: Itself

Free Download The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed (Audiobook)
English | August 25, 2020 | ASIN: B08FXSNC2P | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 34m | 352 MB
Author: Christof Koch | Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
A thought-provoking argument that consciousness-more widespread than previously assumed-is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack
In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted-the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain-three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of physics as any other piece-give rise to subjective experience? Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the brain. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Koch outlines such a theory, based on integrated information.

Free Download Isaac M. Alderman, "The Animal at Unease with Itself: Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2-3"
English | ISBN: 1978702914 | 2020 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1329 KB
Quoting Derrida, in The Animal at Unease with Itself: Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2-3 Isaac M. Alderman draws attention to the fact that humans are the only animals who are disturbed by nakedness. This unease with regard to our own bodies is an important aspect of the study of disgust and death anxiety. Alderman seeks to apply terror management theorists’ focus on death anxiety to biblical studies and to utilize the concept of animal reminder disgust‒‒the visceral reaction to reminders of our animality‒‒to better understand the opening chapters of Genesis, dealing particularly with themes of mortality, the human body, and the animal-human boundary in those chapters. After describing relevant aspects of cognitive science, terror management theory, and animal reminder disgust, Alderman demonstrates, using Genesis 2‒3 (and the role of clothing as a marker of the animal-human boundary there) as a case study, that an interdisciplinary approach that draws on cognitive science can illumine the biblical text in important ways.

Free Download The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD96RRCW | 2023 | 13 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 381 MB
Author: Frederick Lewis Allen
Narrator: Stephen Caffrey
During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and more social, political, and economic changes than in any other five-decade period before. Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor of Harper’s Magazine, recounts these years-spanning World War I, the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, World War II, and the early Cold War-in vivid detail, from the fashions and customs of the times to major events that changed the course of history.

Free Download The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BSB2S1MJ | 2023 | 5 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Ulf Danielsson
Narrator: Pete Cross

Free Download When the Soul Remembers Itself: Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche edited by Jules Cashford, Thomas Singer, Craig San Roque
English | May 8, 2019 | ISBN: 1138310727, 1138310751 | True EPUB/PDF | 224 pages | 2.1/13.2 MB
Do the ancient Greek poets, playwrights, philosophers and mythologies have anything to say to modern human beings? Is their time finished, or do their insights have as much relevance to the human condition as they did 2,500 years ago? When the Soul Remembers Itself continues the exploration of the connections between ancient and modern psyche with a resounding affirmation of its ongoing relevance.