Understanding Consciousness

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By David Hume. 1988, Prometheus, 149pp. (Library discard with usual markings. Good+. No DJ, as issued. Permabound version of trade paperback. Illustrated boards)

By Jacob Needleman. 1982, Crossroad Publishing, 173pp. "Is the science of awareness what has been missing from all our thought and life since the dawn of the modern era? This question is the backbone of this text. . (Library discard with usual markings. Good+ in Good+ in mylar wraps. FEP removed)

By Marvin Minsky. 1985 (1986), Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 339pp, 11x8.5". Oversized. `"Minksy -- one of the fathers of computer science and co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T. -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minksy brilliantly portarys the mind as a society of tiny components that are in themselves mindless... Each chapter corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosiac.... An adventure in imagination." . (VG+)

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Charles Tart | Carl Jung

By William H. Calvin. 1996, Basic, 184pp. (VG+)

(8/5/00) - Also listed on General Self-Help.

By Margaret Matlin. 1983, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 423pp. First edition. Psychology textbook. (Good, no DJ. Orange hi-liting throughout text. )

By John Kotre. 1995, Free Press, 276pp. Described how our lives are shaped by "autobiographical" memories -- often of events that never happened or that are grossly distorted. A fascinating study of human memory. (Fine in Fine DJ)

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For books about repressed memory and its reliability in child abuse cases.

By Stanley Coren. 1996, Free Press, 304pp. "Some provocative stories about sleep oddities are presented along with a description of some strange sleep disorders that affect a surprisingly large number of people. Finally, the book describes specific techniques to help children sleep through the night." (Fine in Fine DJ)

By Oliver Sacks. 1985 (1987), Harper & Row, 242pp. A neurologist describes the strange effects of neurological damage. . (VG)

By Oliver Sacks. 1987, Harper Perennial Library Edition, 243pp. Author recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. (Library discard with usual markings. Fair)

By Oliver Sacks. 1996, Knopf, 298pp. "Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pinge-lap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally colorblind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders..." (VG+ in Fair DJ)

By A. R. Luria and Oliver Sacks (foreword). 1987, Harvard University Press, 165pp. A case study by this distinquished Russian pyschologist of a young soldier's struggle to regain his mental faculties after suffering a catastrophic head wound. (VG+)

(7/14/00) - Also listed on Living with Physical Disabilities.

By Roger C. Schank and . 1984, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 265pp. Shows how computers ultimately will learn to think: by using software that will enable machines to learn and change as a result of experience, as humans do. Teaching computers to understand commmands in English rather than a computer language. (Library discard with usual markings. VG in Fair DJ in mylar wraps. )

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