Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789546423689
Category :
Languages : en
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Structure of Matter, Structure of Mind : Man's Place in Nature, Reconsidered
Author: Structure of Matter, Structure of Mind
Author: William AblerPublisher:
ISBN: 9789546422323
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
"Structure of Matter, Structure of Mind provides a complete, clear, unified theory of the foundations of mathematics, language, and the human mind. Mind in the human sense is no longer distinguished by a few chance details of zoological classification, but, like physics, is based directly in first principles. Because sentences share all functional mechanisms with equations - a main verb, linguistic deep-structure, recursion, discretencess, linear delivery, truth and falsity - language shares a common source with arithmetic and algebra. Because truth or falsity of equations depends on their symmetry about the "equals", equations are self-regulating, not arbitrary, and reflect the founding properties of matter. Sentences of ordinary language are formed from equations by the turning of a single key - that of symmetry - unlocking the human mind into the fascinating non-Euclidean world of 21[superscript st] century physics and beyond."--BOOK JACKET
The Composition of Matter and the Evolution of Mind
Author: Duncan TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immortality
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Structure & Growth of the Mind
Author: William MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mind and body
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind Volume 3
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198879466
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions. Each volume will highlight two themes to bring focus to debates. The series will reflect the diversity of methods adopted in contemporary philosophy of mind and provide a venue for rigorous and innovative work by both established and up-and-coming voices in the field. The themes covered in the third volume are mind and science, sensory experience, and the philosophy of mind of Margaret Cavendish and C.A. Strong. It also contains a book symposium on David Papineau's The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience.
Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind
Author: William JaworskiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191066494
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind is the first book to show how hylomorphism can be used to solve mind-body problems—persistent problems understanding how thought, feeling, perception, and other mental phenomena fit into the physical world described by our best science. Hylomorphism claims that structure is a basic ontological and explanatory principle. Some individuals, paradigmatically living things, consist of materials that are structured or organized in various ways. Those structures are responsible for individuals being the kinds of things they are, and having the kinds of powers or capacities they have. From a hylomorphic perspective, mind-body problems are byproducts of a worldview that rejects structure. Hylomorphic structure carves out distinctive individuals from the otherwise undifferentiated sea of matter and energy described by our best physics, and it confers on those individuals distinctive powers, including the powers to think, feel, and perceive. A worldview that rejects hylomorphic structure lacks a basic principle which distinguishes the parts of the physical universe that can think, feel, and perceive from those that can't, and without such a principle, the existence of those powers in the physical world can start to look inexplicable and mysterious. But if mental phenomena are structural phenomena, as hylomorphism claims, then they are uncontroversially part of the physical world, for on the hylomorphic view, structure is uncontroversially part of the physical world. Hylomorphism thus provides an elegant way of solving mind-body problems.
Radiation Theory of Gravitation and Structure of Matter
Author: Jaromír HrbekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gravitation
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Cincinnati Lancet & Observer
Author: Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality
Author: Paul L. NunezPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199914648
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? This book synthesizes ideas borrowed from philosophy, religion, and science. Topics range widely from brain imagining of thought processes to quantum mechanics and the essential role of information in brains and physical systems.
Evolving the Mind
Author: A. Graham Cairns-SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521637558
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A lively account of consciousness and the mind.
