consciousness

Using her signature folk style, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, political activist, and feminist icon weaves a story that incorporates themes of individual power and collective responsibility.

When someone uses Tia Dante's body to commit murder on live TV, she unearths multiple scandals, massive corruption and more than a few stray bullets as she races against time to find the real killer.

Curious readers step into the operating room to find out the exact biological mechanisms that make anesthetics work.

This book unpacks what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we click 'Like' or even just scroll for new content on social media. Through interviews with top influencers, the latest studies, and pop-culture anecdotes, and Dr. Boxer Wachler's own expertise as both a scientist and an influencer himself, he reveals how influence works.

"In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the 'companionship' program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation, creating a new class of people--a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will."--Provided by publisher.

Presents a scientific-materialist theory and argument for the evolution of the human mind out of physical substances, arguing against the idea of a mind distinct from matter as championed for most of human philosophical thought since the French philosopher Descartes. Explores the process of natural selection the author thinks led from mindless bacteria up to comprehension and consciousness.

"Hidden beneath consciousness, the brain mechanisms of personal space affect every aspect of our lives - social, emotional, cultural, and practical"--Provided by publisher.

Explores how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human.

"Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down. In 'An End to Upside Down Thinking', Mark Gober . . . explores . . . scientific evidence from a diverse set of disciplines, ranging from psychic phenomena, to near-death experiences, to quantum physics and argues that the disarray around the globe can be linked, at its core, to a fundamental misunderstanding of our reality"--Amazon.