Mind Searching

Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956716241

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Mind Searching by B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

In Mind Searching Nyamnjoh has attempted to do something rather clever - to expose, through the attitudes, feelings and thoughts of one man and a very simple story, the hypocrisy and corruption of Cameroon society and humanity in general, often using understatement and irony in good effect. The commentary is unremittingly cynical and returns again and again to corruption, callous squandering, exploitation, prostitution, and other fairly worn butts. The book depicts a society where basic freedoms are shackled, and thinking aloud treasonable. Hence the mental ramblings of the narrator and central character Judascious Fanda Yanda, in the form of an extended monologue full of observations, anecdotes and asides written from the point of view of an apparently insouciant naive. The basic method is to foreground the opinions and conversational elegance of the narrator, while having events going on as a background to his thoughts. We trace the narrator's progress from a disenchanted 'Damn? de la Terre' to a comfortably well off Private Secretary to a Vice Minister over a number of years. It is a clear illustration of how the system perpetuates its mediocrity and buys off any spark of initiative. Nyamnjoh has a good command of ironic tone and sound control over form and structure. He employs a very fluent style, and often has very urbane and neat turns of phrase. He captures the bored, superior, cynical and ultimately predatory tone of voice of his narrator extremely well.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781606436271

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The Contents of a Searching Mind by Anonim Pdf

Author : John MACENCROE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018837311

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The Wanderings of the Human Mind in “searching the Scriptures”; Being a Concise History of the Origin, Progress, and Condemnation of the Principal Heresies that Have Arisen in the Several Ages of Christianity, from the Private Interpretation of the Holy Bible by John MACENCROE Pdf

Author : Roger Penrose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195106466

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Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose Pdf

Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within scientifically comprehensive physical laws.

Author : Grigorian
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy of mind
ISBN : 9781449011550

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In Search Of The Mind by Grigorian Pdf

Author : Eric R. Kandel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393070514

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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel Pdf

“A stunning book.”—Oliver Sacks Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind—a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology—with his own personal quest to understand memory. A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory brings readers from Kandel's childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to the forefront of one of the great scientific endeavors of the twentieth century: the search for the biological basis of memory.

Author : Anne Harrington
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781324001973

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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington Pdf

Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here. In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds. But when the Freudians overreached, they drove psychiatry into a state of crisis that a new “biological revolution” was meant to alleviate. Harrington shows how little that biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science, and why the field has fallen into a state of crisis in our own time. Mind Fixers makes clear that psychiatry’s waxing and waning biological enthusiasms have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors, including immigration, warfare, grassroots activism, and assumptions about race and gender. Government programs designed to empty the state mental hospitals, acrid rivalries between different factions in the field, industry profit mongering, consumerism, and an uncritical media have all contributed to the story as well. In focusing particularly on the search for the biological roots of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder, Harrington underscores the high human stakes for the millions of people who have sought medical answers for their mental suffering. This is not just a story about doctors and scientists, but about countless ordinary people and their loved ones. A clear-eyed, evenhanded, and yet passionate tour de force, Mind Fixers recounts the past and present struggle to make mental illness a biological problem in order to lay the groundwork for creating a better future, both for those who suffer and for those whose job it is to care for them.

Author : Leighton J Reynolds
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462015337

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In Search of Aginsky's Mind by Leighton J Reynolds Pdf

A psychological and action thriller, this second novel in the Seaville Wildfire Trilogy sends all of the characters from the first novel, and new characters, deeper into the problems that generate California wildfires. Six months after the Canyon Fire, Dr. Roger Sterling finds himself confronting a serial arsonist (or arsonists) still out there, a kidnapping, a Hit Man, the theft of intellectual property, and a firestorm all within less than 24 hours. He concludes that synchronicity plays a huge role in what he is confronting as he discovers that Long Island, New York and Central Tennessee are also a part of the California story. What weaves all of this together is the search for Aginskys mind and the rights to a brilliant theory that explains the ongoing evolutionary development of the Universe. All the while, Aginskys mind holds some of the most important keys to understanding what creates wildfires world-wide. This novel is a suspenseful ride into human nature, our collective nature, the universal struggle between Eros and Thanatos, the concept of synchronicity and the complexities of our evolutionary nature that will challenge the reader at every turn.

Author : George Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307765444

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Fire in the Mind by George Johnson Pdf

Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's audacious exploration of the border between science and religion, cosmic accident and timeless law. Northern New Mexico is home both to the most provocative new enterprises in quantum physics, information science, and the evolution of complexity and to the cosmologies of the Tewa Indians and the Catholic Penitentes. As it draws the reader into this landscape, juxtaposing the systems of belief that have taken root there, Fire in the Mind into a gripping intellectual adventure story that compels us to ask where science ends and religion begins. "A must for all those seriously interested in the key ideas at the frontier of scientific discourse."--Paul Davies

Author : Daniel L Schacter
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780786724291

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Searching For Memory by Daniel L Schacter Pdf

Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical level, psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according to Daniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished memory researchers, the mysteries of memory are finally yielding to dramatic, even revolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Schacter explains how and why it may change our understanding of everything from false memory to Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with striking -- and sometimes bizarre -- amnesias resulting from brain injury or psychological trauma.

Author : Chester Litvin PhD
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781490798356

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Search for Holographic Mind by Chester Litvin PhD Pdf

A psychologist explores the human psyche’s tendency toward fragmentation and a plan to restore a healthy self. In this debut book, Litvin argues that the human psyche tends, often as a response to trauma, to shatter into disjointed parts. This can be a normal and even salutary psychological mechanism, especially when employed to defensively sequester the mind from overwhelming pain. But the mind can overreact to distress, leading to a self so addled with internal fissures that unhappiness, anxiety, confusion, and a deficit of self-esteem can ensue. Fortunately, the author contends, the splintering of one’s self can be remedied by establishing a dialogue between the parts, hence producing a “congruence” that results in the harmony of a “Utopian collective”: “The solid identity is a unique structure of the psyche where the fragments are aligned together in common goals and attitude.” In order to illustrate his chief points, Litvin concocts a fictional case study that chronicles the life of soldier Stepan Kryvoruchko, who fled the authoritarian ideology of the Soviet Union and suffered from a “shattered identity” as a consequence. The author vividly personifies the scattered shards of Stepan’s mind, and the process whereby he heals destructive “splitting” through a reconstructive unification. Litvin compellingly assesses the political dimension of his theory, and the “virus of radicalization” that can infect both individuals as well as body politics. Author also includes helpful literary analogies, drawing a connection between critique of totalitarian collectivism and Dostoyevsky’s novelistic dissection of the issue. This volume also expands upon the author’s idea of sailing as a metaphor for introspective search, and provides a broader account of the nature of individual equilibrium; these concrete illustrations are of great instructional value.

Author : Howard Burton
Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781771701211

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In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind by Howard Burton Pdf

This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Chris Frith, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. After an interesting exploration of how Chris Frith became interested in the study of schizophrenia, this detailed conversation examines topics such how our understanding of schizophrenia has evolved, the role of dopamine, how the brain works, the brain’s predicting role, the phantom limb phenomenon, how the brain and mind link up, how culture affects the brain and much more. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Eyes on the Prize, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. Becoming a Psychologist - From “min and crys” to schizophrenia II. Probing Agency - Predictions, tickling and dopamine III. The Active Brain - The principal actor in the theatre of experience IV. Ideal Bayesian Operators - How our brains trump our minds V. In Search of a Mechanism - How to connect the subpersonal with the personal VI. Humanistic Hubris - Dancing bees, stripping pine cones and The Royal Society VII. Free Will - And what it means VIII. The Very Big Picture - Towards a grand unified theory of psychology? IX. Final Thoughts - Schizophrenia treatment and open questions About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series: This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert through a focused yet informal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks. For other books in this series visit our website (https://ideas-on-film.com/ideasroadshow/).

Author : Dr. Jay Lombard
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780553418699

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The Mind of God by Dr. Jay Lombard Pdf

For fans of Deepak Chopra, Rudy Tanzi, and Andrew Newberg. A renowned behavioral neurologist provides insights to some of the most curious spiritual questions we all face. Is there a God? It’s a question billions of people have asked since the dawn of time. You would think by now we’d have a satisfactory, universal answer. No such luck…Or maybe we do and we just need to look in the right place. For Dr. Jay Lombard that place is the brain, and more importantly the mind, that center of awareness and consciousness that creates reality. In The Mind of God, Dr. Lombard employs case studies from his own behavioral neurology practice to explore the spiritual conundrums that we all ask ourselves: What is the nature of God? Does my life have purpose? What's the meaning of our existence? Are we free? What happens to us when we die? For Lombard, these metaphysical questions are a jumping-off point for exploring the brain in search of the seat of the soul. It is neuroscience, the author contends, and how we and our brains interpret what’s going on around us that can lead us to a deeper and more fulfilling faith. Mixing his personal experiences in the medical field (including compelling cases such as the male patient who really thought he was pregnant and a woman who literally scared herself to death) along with his own visionary insight into spiritual experience, Lombard has much to tell us about the nature and power of belief—and what we can do to focus our beliefs in a positive direction. If you want to find more meaning in your life or are searching for a deeper understanding of why we believe what we believe, then this book can lead to an exciting transformation in the way you see and understand the world around you. With cutting-edge research and provocative case studies, renowned behavioral neurologist provides insights to some of the most curious spiritual questions of mortality.

Author : Brian Greene
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781524731687

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Until the End of Time by Brian Greene Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose, from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe. "Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New York Times Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the end of time, exploring how lasting structures formed, how life and mind emerged, and how we grapple with our existence through narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and a deep longing for the eternal. From particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning—Brian Greene allows us all to grasp and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.

Author : Frederick Beasley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : HARVARD:HNPUS6

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A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind by Frederick Beasley Pdf

Coming down to our own globe, we find our understandings posed by mysteries no less insoluble, in the wonderful process by which dead is converted into living matter, and in what the principle of life itself consists, in the inscrutable structure of our own minds, the mysterious ties by which they are connected to our bodies, the mode of their reciprocal action upon each other, the incomprehensible manner in which feeling, perception, thought and voluntary motion are accomplished. These and many other principles and operations of body and mind, are among the unsearchable arcana of nature, and great and sublime as would be our enjoyment did infinite wisdom think proper to unfold them to us, are, for the present, refused to our most eager curiosity, and perhaps the disclosure of them may be reserved to enhance and invigorate our happiness in a more exalted state of being. Let us not, however, from considering the limited nature of our faculties and the scantiness and imperfection of that knowledge which, with our best exertions, we are able to attain, be discouraged in pushing on, to the utmost extent of our time and opportunities, our philosophical investigations.--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).