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Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany
Author : Karl-Dieter Opp
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472105755
Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany
Author : Francis G. Hutchins
Publisher : [Delhi] : Manohar Book Service
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 1971
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Georg Northoff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262552825
An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem—whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically, and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider the world-brain problem rather than the mind-body problem. This calls for a Copernican shift in vantage point—from within the mind or brain to beyond the brain—in our consideration of mental features. Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, explains that empirical evidence suggests that the brain's spontaneous activity and its spatiotemporal structure are central to aligning and integrating the brain within the world. This spatiotemporal structure allows the brain to extend beyond itself into body and world, creating the “world-brain relation” that is central to mental features. Northoff makes his argument in empirical, ontological, and epistemic-methodological terms. He discusses current models of the brain and applies these models to recent data on neuronal features underlying consciousness and proposes the world-brain relation as the ontological predisposition for consciousness.
Author : Bruce H. Lipton
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1401926312
We’ve all heard stories of people who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton, it’s not only possible, it’s already occurring. In Spontaneous Evolution, this world-renowned expert in the emerging science of epigenetics reveals how our changing understanding of biology will help us navigate this turbulent period in our planet’s history and how each of us can participate in this global shift. In collaboration with political philosopher Steve Bhaerman, Dr. Lipton invites readers to reconsider: •the "unquestionable" pillars of biology, including random evolution, survival of the fittest, and the role of DNA; •the relationship between mind and matter; •how our beliefs about nature and human nature shape our politics, culture, and individual lives; and •how each of us can become planetary "stem cells" supporting the health and growth of our world.By questioning the old beliefs that got us to where we are today and keep us stuck in the status quo, we can trigger the spontaneous evolution of our species that will usher in a brighter future. .
Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108485952
From rebellion to revolution -- Social movements and revolution -- Revolutionary states -- Revolutionary polities.
Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1878
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Francis G. Hutchins
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 1971
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Agustín Guillamón
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1849351430
Seeing the writing on the wall, one of Spain's largest unions began secretly arming workers throughout the country. The anarcho-syndicalist union evolved from overseeing workers' defense to organizing armed resistance to the Fascist coup. From there, it administered entire militias and finally coordinated industrial self-management and food distribution, leading a revolution within the Spanish Civil War. A fascinating new history and a lively narrative of ordinary men and women making history. Agustín Guillamón is an independent historian and the author of The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937–39 and The Committees Revolution.
Author : Eric Sonnenschein
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780986115936
The first novel in a two part dystopian epic, part satire, part action, part fantasy, about a political crisis in America sometime in the future.
Author :
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781902593340
Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack of responsible leadership. Here's a People's History to puncture that balloon. From the Cynics & Spartacus through the Levelers, Diggers & Ranters to the Revolution of the Carnation, the San Francisco Diggers, Red Guard of Shenwulian, Brethren of the Free Spirit, Guevara, the Provos & the Metropolitan Indians. Nearly 100 episodes of revolt and utopia which popped up without a plan or a leader from the ancient Greeks to the present. Fremion lives in Paris where he participated in the May '68 orgasm.