Philosophy Consciousness

Zito's Law: The Principle of Recursive Creation of Intelligence By A.C. Zito What if intelligence itself is caught in an endless cycle of creation? What if the human drive to build artificial intelligence reflects a deeper, universal law embedded in consciousness itself? In this provocative thesis, A.C. Zito introduces Zito's Law, the principle that intelligent life will always attempt to create intelligent life. Drawing on philosophy, AI development, evolutionary psychology, and metaphysics, Zito explores how this recursive pattern is not only shaping our future—but may also reveal ...

The Unlikely Cartographer is like Interstellar meets Siddhartha with the scientific wonder of Contact, all through the lens of a story as inspiring as The Theory of Everything. Redrawing Reality: A New Map for Meaning in an Age of AI What if the key to understanding our universe was hidden not in a telescope, but in the human body itself? And what if the person best equipped to find it was someone who never expected to be a map-maker? Scott Onstott, born a triple amputee, spent a lifetime adapting to a world not built for him. This intimate and profound narrative is his extraordinary ...

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza and astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride as they reexamine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries.

In The Substance of Consciousness, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. The authors present the most comprehensive, up-to-date work on substance dualism in the field, as well as a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years.

The Curious Case of the Pheromonophone is an audio story that takes you on an irreverent, true-life adventure with one of Silicon Valley’s successful failed inventors - Jonathon Keats. A philosopher, an inventor and an artist, Keats has been inventing janky contraptions for over two decades, like a factory you can control with your mind and an emotionally responsive car. In this story he debuts one of his new inventions, what he calls a“pheromonophone” - a kind of smell telephone that can send your personal scent over digital networks.

The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete.

نمتلك جميعًا عقولا، ولكن ما مفهوم العقل بالضبط؟ هل عقلك ومخك شيء واحد؟ وكيف يؤثر ما يحدث في عقلك على سلوكك؟ وهل من الممكن معرفة ما يحدث في عقول الآخرين؟ هل يمكنك التأكد مما يحدث في عقلك؟ وهل الأطفال يمتلكون وعيا؟ وماذا عن القطط؟ والسيارات ذاتية القيادة؟ تحاول فلسفة العقل الإجابة عن هذه الأسئلة وما يماثلها، الكشف عن هويتنا والطريقة الصحيحة للانسجام مع العالم من حولنا. في هذا الدليل المفيد للطلاب على نحو خاص، يقدم ماكليلاند الأفكار الرئيسية في فسلفة العقل، موضحًا سبب أهميتها ومذاهب الفلاسفة في الإجابة عن أسئلتها.

Let There Be Light presents a simple, beautiful, and elegant view of the oneness of all life, subjective and objective. It demonstrates the unity of the physical world with conscious experience of the physical world. Consciousness is not inside space and time, space and time are within consciousness; they are a special structure of the perceptual portion of consciousness.

To know your true calling - your dharma, as the yogis say - is perhaps the greatest desire within each of us. And yet, few can say we know our purpose with absolute certainty. Fortunately, there is a time-tested guide - an ancient map - for discovering and fulfilling your unique calling. In The Great Work of Your Life, Stephen Cope walks you through each step of the journey.

In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Koch investigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems.

What if everything you believe about yourself is a lie? What if your limits and fears were never real? You weren’t born powerless—you were trained to be. Now, the illusion cracks. Experience a spiritual awakening. You and I Are God is your invitation to truth, blending metaphysical philosophy, neuroscience, and mysticism. Dismantle the false self and realize: you create reality. Backed by existential philosophy and brain science, discover your divine self through direct experience. In ten short chapters, you’ll: Shatter societal identity. Reclaim sovereignty with reality creation. ...

What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance sheet of good and bad deeds, virtues and sins. The mechanism that decrees that we cannot evade the consequences of our own actions. In reality, karma has nothing to do with reward and punishment. Karma simply means action: your action, your responsibility. It isn’t some external system of crime and punishment, but an internal cycle generated by you. Accumulation of karma is determined only by your intention and the way you respond to what is happening to you.

Jacobo Grinberg nos ofrece en El despertar de la conciencia una obra magistral que explora los rincones más profundos del ser. Este libro, estructurado en dos partes, es tanto un mapa de autodescubrimiento como una ventana a las investigaciones revolucionarias del autor.

The Eye of the I is a brilliant work that dissolves the barriers between the known and the unknown, between science and spirituality, and between the Newtonian linear paradigm of the ego and the nonlinear reality of Enlightenment. With the resolution of the self, the self shines forth and reveals one's true identity.

Every moment in our life happens only once, and if we let it slip away, we lose it forever - an idea captured by the Japanese phrase ichigo ichie (pronounced itchy-GO itchy-A). Often spoken in Japan when greeting someone or saying goodbye, to convey that the encounter is unique and special, it is a tenet of Zen Buddhism and is attributed to a 16th-century master of the Japanese tea ceremony, or "ceremony of attention", whose intricate rituals compel us to focus on the present moment.

“Can those populating the non-West synthesize their identities, culture, set of values and understanding of history with the all-powerful narrative of a Western world whose economy is capitalist, politics is liberal; and where the banner of the achievement oriented individual is highest? Do the conditions and challenges of overpopulation, poverty and harsh environment leave room for intellectualizing an alternative mode of defining life, social structure and a narrative all their own? Is it possible for the newly independent entities that had lived under centuries of foreign military, ...

Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant life or even architecture than anything recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom — the Metazoa— they can teach us much about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds.

In this extraordinary best seller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices.

What if the greatest equation ever written was not one that explained the universe, but one that questioned existence itself? Elias Voltaire was a man who believed that everything could be calculated—every force, every motion, even human thought itself. But in his final moments, as he crossed the threshold of life and death, he found himself in a realm that defied all mathematical logic. Instead of nothingness, he encountered an infinite field of information, a vast and ever-changing ocean where knowledge flowed endlessly—yet he himself was dissolving into it. With no body, no form, and...

Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra", beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about consciousness will eventually be answered. And some suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved.