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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)
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The "user illusion" in computing is the desktop graphical user interface (GUI): the friendly, comprehensible illusion presented to the user to conceal all the bouncing bits and bytes that do the actual work. Tor Nørretranders writes that "our consciousness is a user illusion for ourselves and the world ... one's very own map of oneself and one's... »
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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Really, what is the difference between a nip and a bite? They look the same, when you are watching kittens playing, how can you tell if they are biting in earnestness or just fooling around? Well you can't really tell, because a nip is a bite and isn't a bite all at the same time. However, you can tell, of course you can, because a nip has a sign poste... »
The Cosmic Mind and Submanifest Order of Being
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Deepak Chopra is delightful to listen to. His anecdotes are warm and humorous like his voice, and he pops in laugh-out-loud one liners even though his presentation is anything but dry. Here he digresses at the very beginning of his talk to wax lyrical about how we manifest according to the tenets of Vedanta, and I think, uh-oh, I've had as much of The ... »
The Humanistic Tradition, Book 3: The European
An Introduction to Awareness
I bought the book because a friend whom I respect suggested that it would be an interesting exploration of the issue of consciousness. He thoroughly enjo... »
Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology
WILL & SPIRIT is a difficult book to review. Any review is likely to reflect more of my own bias than the quality of the book. Readers will probably eit... »
The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential
Rollo May provides in this book a good introduction to existential psychotherapy. He clearly introduces the central concepts of existentialism and provid... »
How to Use the Science of Mind
Since the movie The Secret came out, there is a renewed interest in what I like to call "Mind Stuff". People want to find out how they can use this Power ... »
On Love and Loneliness
"On Love and Loneliness" by Krishnamurti is a deep, thought provoking study into the myriad forms of 'relationships' and that only by renouncing the self ... »
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, M
Some love it, some hate it, but The Emperor's New Mind, physicist Roger Penrose's 1989 treatise attacking the foundations of strong artificial inte... »
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