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This book is about all things consciousness, great and small. It starts by pointing to the key characteristic of consciousness, without realizing which it cannot be understood: like everything else about the mind, it is fundamentally a kind of computation. Among many other matters, this explains: how it is that we share some aspects of consciousness with bacteria, how it can arise in artificial machines and not just living ones, how the empty ...

A guide for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to th...

A reference book for making sense of life—from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience—a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sens...

La ricerca della felicità è da secoli un mantra per filosofi e letterati. Lo psicologo Shimon Edelman, partendo dall'immagine della mente come macchina complessa e stratificata che accumula sempre nuove esperienze, inverte gli elementi della formula per dimostrare che la felicità non sta tanto nel raggiungimento di un particolare stato esistenziale, quanto nell'incessante processo di crescita di tutti noi. Letteratura e filosofia fanno da idea...

Shimon Edelman bases a comprehensive approach to visual representation on the notion of correspondence between proximal (internal) and distal similarities in objects.

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