MYTH OF MIND
Title | MYTH OF MIND PDF eBook |
Author | Noel Wilson Smith |
Publisher | Booklocker.com |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781634917674 |
The book examines the assumptions and confusions regarding misuse of constructs (constructions) in mainstream psychology. The confusions involve a failure to distinguish constructs from concrete events. Four controversial topics of psychology, namely mind-body, consciousness, free will vs. determinism, and sensations are examined.
The Myth of the Closed Mind
Title | The Myth of the Closed Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Scott Percival |
Publisher | Open Court Publishing |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0812696859 |
Religious zeal, suicide terrorism, passionate commitment to ideologies, and the results of various psychological tests are often cited to show that humans are fundamentally irrational. The author examines all such supposed examples of irrationality and argues that they are compatible with rationality. Rationality does not mean absence of error, but the possibility of correcting error in the light of criticism. In this sense, all human beliefs are rational: they are all vulnerable to being abandoned when shown to be faulty.
Mind, Myth and Magick
Title | Mind, Myth and Magick PDF eBook |
Author | T. A. Waters |
Publisher | |
Pages | 806 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780945296102 |
Mind is a Myth
Title | Mind is a Myth PDF eBook |
Author | U. G. Krishnamurti |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2022-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Mind is a Myth talks about a man who had it all, including looks, wealth, culture, fame, travel, career, etc. and gave up everything to find answers to questions for himself. This book aims to introduce the readers to the unknown truths in life and discuss this topic: behind all the abstractions thrown by religion to us, is there really such a thing as freedom, enlightenment, or liberation?
Hollywood and the Box Office
Title | Hollywood and the Box Office PDF eBook |
Author | John Izod |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1988-07-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1349193240 |
Changing business circumstances have put pressure on film studios and changed the nature of films they produce. This book examines the reaction of the corporations who have found themselves in danger or have perceived new ways of adding to their profitability, influencing the films they produce.
Myth and the Mind
Title | Myth and the Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Indrani Deb |
Publisher | Notion Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2019-07-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1645877752 |
Indian mythology is a teeming storehouse of heroes and heroines, who are psychological studies in themselves. Did you know, for instance, how Krishna’s son, who was his father’s alter ego, tackled the curse to be the destroyer of his entire clan? Did you know that sage Gargi was the only lady amongst legendary sages who competed for the prize for the greatest sage in the sub-continent? Did you know that Sahadev, the youngest Pandava, had qualities lacking in any of his other, better-known brothers? Did you know that Shakuni is actually a tragic hero? Myth and the Mind is a collection of six short stories about very interesting personalities in Indian mythology. These men and women are all great, and they are all human beings in whom we will all discover a small part of ourselves.
Software and Mind
Title | Software and Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Andrei Sorin |
Publisher | Andsor Books |
Pages | 934 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0986938904 |
Addressing general readers as well as software practitioners, "Software and Mind" discusses the fallacies of the mechanistic ideology and the degradation of minds caused by these fallacies. Mechanism holds that every aspect of the world can be represented as a simple hierarchical structure of entities. But, while useful in fields like mathematics and manufacturing, this idea is generally worthless, because most aspects of the world are too complex to be reduced to simple hierarchical structures. Our software-related affairs, in particular, cannot be represented in this fashion. And yet, all programming theories and development systems, and all software applications, attempt to reduce real-world problems to neat hierarchical structures of data, operations, and features. Using Karl Popper's famous principles of demarcation between science and pseudoscience, the book shows that the mechanistic ideology has turned most of our software-related activities into pseudoscientific pursuits. Using mechanism as warrant, the software elites are promoting invalid, even fraudulent, software notions. They force us to depend on generic, inferior systems, instead of allowing us to develop software skills and to create our own systems. Software mechanism emulates the methods of manufacturing, and thereby restricts us to high levels of abstraction and simple, isolated structures. The benefits of software, however, can be attained only if we start with low-level elements and learn to create complex, interacting structures. Software, the book argues, is a non-mechanistic phenomenon. So it is akin to language, not to physical objects. Like language, it permits us to mirror the world in our minds and to communicate with it. Moreover, we increasingly depend on software in everything we do, in the same way that we depend on language. Thus, being restricted to mechanistic software is like thinking and communicating while being restricted to some ready-made sentences supplied by an elite. Ultimately, by impoverishing software, our elites are achieving what the totalitarian elite described by George Orwell in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" achieves by impoverishing language: they are degrading our minds.