More Than Life Itself

Author : A. H. Louie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110321944

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More Than Life Itself by A. H. Louie Pdf

A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a synthetic biology that provides a characterization of life. Biology extends physics. Life is not a specialization of mechanism, but an expansive generalization of it. Organisms and machines share some common features, but organisms are not machines. Life is defined by a relational closure that places it beyond the reach of physicochemical and mechanistic dogma, outside the reductionistic universe, and into the realm of impredicativity. Function dictates structure. Complexity brings forth living beings.

Author : Christof Koch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262042819

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The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch Pdf

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain—three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of physics as any other piece—give rise to subjective experience? Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the brain. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Koch outlines such a theory, based on integrated information. Koch describes how the theory explains many facts about the neurology of consciousness and how it has been used to build a clinically useful consciousness meter. The theory predicts that many, and perhaps all, animals experience the sights and sounds of life; consciousness is much more widespread than conventionally assumed. Contrary to received wisdom, however, Koch argues that programmable computers will not have consciousness. Even a perfect software model of the brain is not conscious. Its simulation is fake consciousness. Consciousness is not a special type of computation—it is not a clever hack. Consciousness is about being.

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780446584982

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Life Itself by Roger Ebert Pdf

"The best thing Mr. Ebert has ever written." - Janet Maslin, New York Times "To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out." Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades. In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career. In this candid, personal history, Ebert chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and obsessions; his struggle and recovery from alcoholism; his marriage; his politics; and his spiritual beliefs. He writes about his years at the Sun-Times, his colorful newspaper friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. He shares his insights into movie stars and directors like John Wayne and Martin Scorsese. This is a story that only Roger Ebert could tell. Filled with the same deep insight, dry wit, and sharp observations that his readers have long cherished, this is more than a memoir -- it is a singular, warm-hearted, inspiring look at life itself.

Author : Frederick Buechner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061842818

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Listening to Your Life by Frederick Buechner Pdf

Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.

Author : Robert Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231075642

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Life Itself by Robert Rosen Pdf

Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to this question would allow humanity to make an enormous leap forward in our understanding of the principles at work in our world. For centuries, it was believed that the only scientific approach to the question "What is life?" must proceed from the Cartesian metaphor (organism as machine). Classical approaches in science, which also borrow heavily from Newtonian mechanics, are based on a process called "reductionism." The thinking was that we can better learn about an intricate, complicated system (like an organism) if we take it apart, study the components, and then reconstruct the system-thereby gaining an understanding of the whole. However, Rosen argues that reductionism does not work in biology and ignores the complexity of organisms. Life Itself, a landmark work, represents the scientific and intellectual journey that led Rosen to question reductionism and develop new scientific approaches to understanding the nature of life. Ultimately, Rosen proposes an answer to the original question about the causal basis of life in organisms. He asserts that renouncing the mechanistic and reductionistic paradigm does not mean abandoning science. Instead, Rosen offers an alternate paradigm for science that takes into account the relational impacts of organization in natural systems and is based on organized matter rather than on particulate matter alone. Central to Rosen's work is the idea of a "complex system," defined as any system that cannot be fully understood by reducing it to its parts. In this sense, complexity refers to the causal impact of organization on the system as a whole. Since both the atom and the organism can be seen to fit that description, Rosen asserts that complex organization is a general feature not just of the biosphere on Earth-but of the universe itself.

Author : Boyce Rensberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 0195125002

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Life Itself by Boyce Rensberger Pdf

Veteran science writer Boyce Rensberger takes readers to the front lines of cell research with some of the brightest investigators in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. He maintains that the solutions to the most pressing challenges facing scientists today will be found in the innermost workings of the cell. 52 illustrations.

Author : Louise Deacon
Publisher : Summersdale
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781848399969

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Twilight, True Love and You by Louise Deacon Pdf

Stephanie Meyer’s supernatural romance saga Twilight is the tale of a young girl torn between two apparently perfect loves - Edward and Jacob. Inspired by the saga, psychologist Louise Deacon reveals the relevance of Bella’s experiences to your own love life and uncovers seven secret steps to help you find lasting love... with a human!

Author : Nicolas de Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108423496

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German Philosophy and the First World War by Nicolas de Warren Pdf

A powerful exploration of how the First World War - 'the war to end all wars' - transformed German philosophy.

Author : Elaine Dundy
Publisher : Virago
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405514910

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Life Itself! by Elaine Dundy Pdf

Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her first years were spent in an apartment on Park Avenue until the stock market crash wiped out most of the family's money. She went to university in the south where, among other studies, she worked hard at losing her virginity. Deciding the stage was her true home, Elaine Dundy headed first to Paris and then to London, where she met and married the famous theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. Though their union was intoxicating, it was far from easy and the successful publication in 1958 of her novel finished off the marriage. But it was the opening of a new world of writers for Elaine Dundy, including friendships with Tennessee Williams, Hemingway and Gore Vidal. Extremely funny and extraordinarily honest this wonderfully remembered story of growing up in America is as much a tonic as life itself.

Author : Annie van den Oever
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564785077

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Life Itself by Annie van den Oever Pdf

Life Itself is the first book-length study in English of the great Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon. A.M.A. van den Oever begins by questioning the paradox between Boon's international reputation as a significant innovator of the novel, and the peculiarly reductive biographical interpretations regularly uttered by some of his fellow countrymen and contemporaries. She looks for answers in Boon's misinterpreted "primitive" Flemish and analyzes the so-called refined pseudo-primitive style within both the grotesque tradition (Kafka, van Ostaijen, Gogol) and the skeptical, radical tradition of Nietzsche. In addition, she offers fresh insight into Boon's character Boontje, seen by many as a diminutive for the writer himself, outlining the sublime and slightly sinister relation of this quasi-comical character to its mighty creator.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414371016

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Life Application New Testament Commentary by Anonim Pdf

Based on the best-selling Life Application Commentary series, this single, handy volume holds practical, concise insight on every verse in the New Testament. Now readers can get all the useful background information they need, without a lot of obscure facts they don't need. A key resource for every Bible teacher and anyone else who wants to understand the New Testament and how it applies to real life.

Author : David Grossman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593312599

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More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman Pdf

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing—the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told—from the internationally best-selling author of To the End of the Land “A magnificent book ... The way Grossman writes about these regions is unique, with a deep understanding of our experience.” —Josip Mlakić, Express (Croatia) More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili—abandoned by Nina when she was just three—has always been close to her grandmother. With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together to Goli Otok, a barren island off the coast of Croatia, where Vera was imprisoned and tortured for three years as a young wife after she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey—filtered through the lens of Gili’s camera, as she seeks to make a film that might help explain her life—lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion. More Than I Love My Life was inspired by the true story of one of David Grossman’s longtime confidantes, a woman who, in the early 1950s, was held on the notorious Goli Otok (“the Adriatic Alcatraz”). With flashbacks to the stalwart Vera protecting what was most precious on the wretched rock where she was held, and Grossman’s fearless examination of the human heart, this swift novel is a thrilling addition to the oeuvre of one of our greatest living novelists, whose revered moral voice continues to resonate around the world.

Author : Eugen Fink
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826459978

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Nietzsche's Philosophy by Eugen Fink Pdf

Nietzsche's Philosophy traces the passionate development of Nietzsche's thought from the aestheticism of The Birth of Tragedy through to the late doctrines of the "will to power" and "eternal return".Inspired by the phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl and by the work of Martin Heidegger, Fink exposes the central themes of Nietzsche's philosophy, revealing the philosopher who experiences thinking as a fate and who ultimately searches for an expression of his own ontological experience in a negative theology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000080762788

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Bradshaw's Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis Crick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Life
ISBN : 0356077365

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Life Itself by Francis Crick Pdf