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... understand ourselves, the endlessly fas-cinating, endlessly strange, world of the human being, by under-standing the ways in which our minds function and how theybecome dysfunctional. the mind and ... the mind and the brain. Fortunately, for our purposes, we do not need a very detailedunderstanding of the way in which the brain works. We shall not beexploring the world of neurons, with their ... across the visual scene. These movements,called saccades, are intelligent; they are not random, but instead gather information relevant to the tasks currently confronting the person.They are...
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... element that helped participants take the first steps in their recoveries: they believed in them and supported them in their decisions and did not interfere in their plans to move forward.It was ... that they may continue to exercise choice and self-determina-tion inthe event they become temporarily incapable of making decisions for themselves in times of crisis.CONCLUSIONS The findings ... popular on the Internet, including many listservs, chat rooms, and bulletin boards. There are also national and local self-help clearinghouses that disseminate information about existing self-help...
... or another inthe individual interacting with artworks. That is, Costantino maintains, one of the responses essential to the initiation of aesthetic experience is wonder, andthe point of such ... Interpreting Art: Reflecting, Wondering, and Responding; Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary (2nd ed); Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images (5th ed.); and ... is prior to the “I think” (Critique of Reason) and to the “I judge,” (Critique of Judgment) and therefore to the unities to seeing and saying andthe ideas of time and space that the Kantian...
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