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  • Homo Falsus - Lying Man: Physics, Consciousness, Language, Information, and I

    by Boris Rusakov ...
    Homo Falsus (Lying Man) explores the topic of human consciousness in a way that many people may have never considered. PhD physicist Boris Rusakov analyzes the functionality of human consciousness and determines that it consists of basic concepts, i.e. abstractions that mostly have nothing to do with reality. Only incidentally they sometimes do. He suggests a scenario of how human consciousness ... Read more

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  • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning: Why We Are So Unhappy

    by Iain McGilchrist ...
    In this 10,000-word essay, written to complement Iain McGilchrist's acclaimed The Master and His Emissary, the author asks why - despite the vast increase in material well-being - people are less happy today than they were half a century ago, and suggests that the division between the two hemispheres of the brain has a critical effect on how we see and understand the world around us. In particular ... Read more

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  • When Einstein Walked with Gödel

    Excursions to the Edge of Thought

    by Jim Holt ...
    From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.**Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

    Systems Thinking, #1

    by Gerald M. Weinberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Systems Thinking
    For more than thirty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in software development and testing, medicine, engineering, social sciences, architecture, and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all over the world, the text has proven its ability to open minds and sharpen ... Read more

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  • Ignorance

    How It Drives Science

    by Stuart Firestein ...
    Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and ... Read more

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  • What We Believe but Cannot Prove

    Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 3 - Edge Question Series
    More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proofScientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward ... Read more

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  • Galileo's Error

    Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

    by Philip Goff ...
    From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness—panpsychism.Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • A Passion for Mathematics

    Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality

    by Clifford A. Pickover ...
    A Passion for Mathematics is an educational, entertaining trip through the curiosities of the math world, blending an eclectic mix of history, biography, philosophy, number theory, geometry, probability, huge numbers, and mind-bending problems into a delightfully compelling collection that is sure to please math buffs, students, and experienced mathematicians alike. In each chapter, Clifford ... Read more

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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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  • On the Quest for Computable Knowledge

    by Stephen Wolfram ...
    Wolfram discusses the history of computation from its earliest beginnings to current applications and the emergence of computable knowledge. Notable figures include: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Gottfried Leibniz, Carl Linnaeus, John von Neumann, and many others. ... Read more

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  • Beyond Numeracy

    by John Allen Paulos ...
    From the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a delightful exploration and explanation of mathematical concepts from algebra to zero in easily accessible alphabetical entries. "Paulos . . . does for mathematics what The Joy of Sex did for the boudoir. . . ."--Washington Post Book World. First time in paperback. ... Read more

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  • Creativity and Intention in Evolution

    by Albert Low ...
    Charles Darwin has now taken his place as one of the great scientific innovators of all time and has changed for ever the way we see ourselves, and our place in the universe. Even those who hold to the biblical account of creation and see Darwin's theory as a profound error can no longer take for granted that their beliefs are beyond question. Yet, the debate between the Creationists and the neo ... Read more

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