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  • Brain-Centric

    How the Mental Space builds our Realities, vol one

    by Ronald Cicurel ...
    This essay is about how we produce “realities.” Scientists think of the world under the “External Reality Paradigm or Postulate” (ERP), whose familiar name is “realism.” ERP asserts that our mental representations reflect what “is” out there. One can correct eventual “reading mistakes” by empirical techniques.Brain-centrism, on the contrary, asserts that our mental representations are not what “is ... Read more

    $11.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Relativistic Brain

    How it works and why it cannot be simulated by a Turing Machine

    by Ronald Cicurel, Miguel Nicolelis ...
    In addition to disclosing a new brain theory, we alsopresent in this monograph a series of arguments to counter thehypothesis, known as computationalism, that complex brains likeours resemble digital computers and, as such, could bereproduced or simulated by software running in a sophisticatedsupercomputer. For quite some time now, many computerscientists involved in artificial intelligence ... Read more

    $6.87 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Visual Intuitionism: The Handbook of use of visual logic thinking in everyday life

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  • The Blind Spot

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  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

    Edited by Mircea Pitici ...
    Series series The Best Writing on Mathematics
    The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the worldThis anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don't need to be a mathematician to ... Read more

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  • How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically

    Exploring the Three Worlds of Mathematics

    by David Tall ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically describes the development of mathematical thinking from the young child to the sophisticated adult. Professor David Tall reveals the reasons why mathematical concepts that make sense in one context may become problematic in another. For example, a child's experience of whole number arithmetic successively affects subsequent understanding of fractions, ... Read more

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    Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

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    $18.99 CAD

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  • Ockham's Razors

    A User's Manual

    by Elliott Sober ...
    Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in current physics, biology, and psychology. The razor also gets used outside of science - in everyday life and in philosophy. This book evaluates the principle and discusses its many applications. ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone

    Edited by Michela Massimi ...
    What is the origin of our universe? What are dark matter and dark energy? What is our role in the universe as human beings capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? Scientific research across both the physical and cognitive sciences raises fascinating philosophical questions. Philosophy and the Sciences For Everyone introduces these ... Read more

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  • Universal Synesthesia

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    by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods, Pieter Adriaans, Johan F.A.K. van Benthem ...
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