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Time a Useful Illusion
Author | : Ronald P. Gruber |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1544542836 |
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Time does not exist, according to modern physics. Yet somehow you experience it in all its dynamic, flowing glory. You don't really move through time as a single persisting being, so feeling that you're not the same person as before is literally true. Last, time flies when you're having fun-and drags when you aren't. In Time, a Useful Illusion, Ronald Gruber takes you on a mind-bending journey of discovery through time illusions. He introduces the Dualistic Mind Theory, explaining how the brain experiences physical time. Learn how virtual reality offers the brain a reliable version of time travel. Time is dead. Yet illusions of time shape who we are. Certain illusions, such as persistence and being present, allow us to have what we believe to be free will. Time is an illusion, but it's an important one that makes us human.
Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Author | : Gregg D. Caruso |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2013-07-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780739177327 |
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Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility investigates the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In fact, a significant number of philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists now either doubt or outright deny the existence of free will and/or moral responsibility—and the list of prominent skeptics appears to grow by the day. Given the profound importance that the concepts of free will and moral responsibility hold in our lives—in understanding ourselves, society, and the law—it is important that we explore what is behind this new wave of skepticism. It is also important that we explore the potential consequences of skepticism for ourselves and society. Edited by Gregg D. Caruso, this collection of new essays brings together an internationally recognized line-up of contributors, most of whom hold skeptical positions of some sort, to display and explore the leading arguments for free will skepticism and to debate their implications.
The Money Illusion
Author | : Scott Sumner |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2023-05-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226826561 |
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The first book-length work on market monetarism, written by its leading scholar. Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It’s happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led the economics community in the 1960s to reevaluate its view of what caused the Great Depression, the same may be happening now to our understanding of the first economic crisis of the 21st century. Foregoing the usual relitigating of problems such as housing markets and banking crises, renowned monetary economist Scott Sumner argues that the Great Recession came down to one thing: nominal GDP, the sum of all nominal spending in the economy, which the Federal Reserve erred in allowing to plummet. The Money Illusion is an end-to-end case for this school of thought, known as market monetarism, written by its leading voice in economics. Based almost entirely on standard macroeconomic concepts, this highly accessible text lays the groundwork for a simple yet fundamentally radical understanding of how monetary policy can work best: providing a stable environment for a market economy to flourish.
The Power of Illusion
Author | : Christopher Anvil |
Publsiher | : Baen Publishing Enterprises |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781618247834 |
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A new collection of stories by the master of humorous science fiction adventure, including: The full-length novel, The Day the Machines Stopped¾and what happens, not just to civilization, but to humanity and its chances of survival when all the machines stop working at once? A man is captured by aliens who are investigating the Earth as a possible target for colonization. The aliens have science and technology far in advance of humans¾but, unfortunately for them, they have never developed the human art of bluffing. For the first time in book form, Anvil's stories of Richard Verner, who is called in to solve apparently insoluble problems, such as explaining why experimental missiles keep failing for no apparent reason, or locating a kidnapped judge, or even solving an inexplicable murder that's interrupting his vacation. And much more, in a generous volume of sardonically humorous science fiction. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Murder By Illusion
Author | : Giles Ekins |
Publsiher | : Next Chapter |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : PKEY:6610000346547 |
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Be careful what you wish for. Stage illusionist Charlie Chilton's career is a failure. When the mysterious Asmodeus Tchort offers him a deal of a lifetime, it looks like he's on a fast track to become the most famous illusionist in the world. The promised success soon follows, but something evil now stalks Charlie's path. He is haunted by savage nightmares, and gruesome murders dog his trail as he tours his controversial new act around the country. Has the magician become a killer? And just who is Asmodeus Tchort?
The Order of Time
Author | : Carlo Rovelli |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780735216112 |
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One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
Optical Illusions
Author | : Al Seckel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Optical illusions |
ISBN | : 1842220152 |
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A gallery of over one hundred optical illusions, each with an explanation.
Time is an Illusion
Author | : Chris Griscom,Wulfing von Rohr |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Parapsychology |
ISBN | : 0553176862 |
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