...
Dewey's pragmatism and dynamical systems theory, he proposes a
bold alternative to Cartesian materialism that deserves careful
scrutiny."
J. A. Scott Kelso, Glenwood and Martha Creech ... Neither Brain nor Ghost - The MIT Press
" ;A new view of mind is in the air. Teed Rockwell has sensed it and
articulated it beautifully in this book. Using a po...
... temples and gardens
in Kyoto. I was also drawn to it because I had seen that Zen had shaped the
cultural life of Japan in many influential ways. There was one final crucial
factor: the opportunity to ... no final pat answers. As
before, a few testable hypotheses are ventured. Page xvi lists the chapters that
contain the m.
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, Englan...
...
Paul Hofmann, Dale Jorgenson, Henning Kagermann,
David Verrill, and Taku Tamura for sharing insights and
suggestions. Most of all, we would like to thank Martha
Pavlakis and Galit Sarfaty ... have a ways to go.
In the late 1990s, there was a fi nancial bubble in the
technology sector. One need not look further than the rise
and fall of the NASDAQ index (fi gure 1.1), the...
... by generating fiscal and trade imbalances. The changing exchange rate eventually
restores a steady state. As Chart 4 shows, and as is clearly implied by equations 25) and 26), the
share of $ ... issued in either country.
All parameters in these arrays are constrained according to Tobinesque principles so that the sum
of constants is equal to one and the sum of each of the...
... and
raise living standards.
12
Controls at all levels of governance, from the
local to the national to the global, can help to direct globalization,
enhancing the benefits and limiting the drawbacks.
13
For ... Sharon Goad,
Joshua Gordon, Jeca Glor-Bell, and Sanushka Mudaliar also helped
immeasurably with the research. We are grateful to the Australian
Research Council an...
... respond to those who say that science in general and the human
sciences in particular disenchant the world in the sense that they take
away all the meaning and significance that magical, wishful stories ... spooky about there being more relations that are real,
and that matter, than relations that are causal. Furthermore, we are good
at tracking all the latter relations, and doing...
... rendering the soul exp lanatorily
redundant has been the bane of post-Cartesian dualism.
What about dualism appealed to Descartes? First, he was particularly im-
pressed by the human capacity for reasoning ... rather than better, and becaus e, in the
explanatory realm, it was vastly outclassed in explanatory and predictive power
by the theory that heat is a matter of molecular...
... what literacy means in relation to software:
The ability to “read” a medium means you can access materials and tools created by others. The ability to “write”
in a medium means you can generate ... make programming tedious and can
make programs diffi cult to read. Instead of using multiple variable names, we can use
arrays. An array can store a list of data elements as a...
... the brain; we can
then marshal the available data from anatomy and neurophysiology
Part I: Background
The Elements of Brain Theory
and Neural Networks
Michael A. Arbib
II.3. Brain, Behavior, and ... commands to contract the muscles of an animal are
usually arranged in pairs. The contraction of one member of the
pair will then act around a pivot to cause the expansion...