One of America’s foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind. How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through...

Prompted by his own experience of a life-altering insight, the author explores the phenomenon of transcendent realisation, or illumination. The book also includes numerous case studies which offer intriguing, real-life particulars of other individuals who experienced their own personal epiphanies.

"A philosopher of science explains how the animal kingdom gave rise to human consciousness"--

Traditional Chinese edition of The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Presents advice on ways to free oneself from habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit one's consciousness. 一本讓生命徹底質變的書。 　　歐普拉說，這本書簡直令她愛不釋手，已買書送給她認識的每一個人。 　　張德芬說，這本書她很喜歡，看了兩次還想再看。 　　★美國熱銷超過100萬冊，心靈界經典作品！...

The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the now-legendary computer scientist and AI authority David Gelernter to the discipline in the first place. As a student and young researcher in the 1980s, Gelernter hoped to build a program with a dial marked "focus." At maximum "focus," the program would "think" rationally, formally,...

"Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated...

What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents--its emotions, thoughts, and memories--are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined. In this book, noted neuropsychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Siegel, MD, uses his characteristic sensitivity and interdisciplinary background to offer a definition of the mind that...

In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer's theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, prejudice, and learning. There is now a new psychological assessment...