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    Mind Without Brain: Discovering the Mind, #2
    Mind Body World: Discovering the Mind, #3
    Scientific Introspection: Discovering the Mind, #1
    Ebook series5 titles

    Discovering the Mind Series

    By William X. Adams

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    About this series

    Nobody really knows what it's  like to die. In the context of personal experience, an investigation into death would seem to be a dead-end.

    However, Black Holes of Nothingness (BHNs) perforate normal experience. Most are unremarkable such as dreamless sleep, anesthetic blackout, and the nothingness in some kinds of meditation.

    Since all BHNs are basically the same (nothing), maybe death is just another BHN. If so, we should be able to learn something about it by examining BHNs of the everyday kind using special first-person methods.

    Reframed like that, death appears to be not a singularity at the end of life but rather, an ordinary event that repeats throughout experience.

    This is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam X. Adams
    Release dateNov 15, 2022
    Mind Without Brain: Discovering the Mind, #2
    Mind Body World: Discovering the Mind, #3
    Scientific Introspection: Discovering the Mind, #1

    Titles in the series (5)

    • 1

      Scientific Introspection: Discovering the Mind, #1
      Scientific Introspection: Discovering the Mind, #1

      Scientific Introspection: Discovering the Mind, #1

      William X. Adams
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      Scientific Introspection calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. Remarkably, we can look inward at the workings of our minds with introspection. As far as we know, we are the only animal on the planet that can do that. It is foolish not to use this amazing gift to study the structure and functions of the mind. Science has no way to observe the mind directly, so psychologists have to study the brain and behavior and guess what the mind is like. But why guess? A well-defined procedure of introspection with standardized reporting language is compatible with scientific observation. This book explains how it would work by overcoming common objections such as privacy, subjectivity, and reflexivity. Includes a case study example.

      Scientific Introspection calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. Remarkably, we can look inward at the workings of our minds with introspection. As far as we know, we are the only animal on the planet that can do that. It is foolish not to use this amazing gift to study the structure and functions of the mind. Science has no way to observe the mind directly, so psychologists have to study the brain and behavior and guess what the mind is like. But why guess? A well-defined procedure of introspection with standardized reporting language is compatible with scientific observation. This book explains how it would work by overcoming common objections such as privacy, subjectivity, and reflexivity. Includes a case study example.

    • 2

      Mind Without Brain: Discovering the Mind, #2
      Mind Without Brain: Discovering the Mind, #2

      Mind Without Brain: Discovering the Mind, #2

      William X. Adams
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      Is the mind the same thing as the brain? The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up no space. They're not even physical.   The amazing thing is that there is no scientific theory of how the mind is connected to the brain. But it must be, right?   Mind Without Brain (Nonfiction, 43,000 words) describes the mind without resorting to biological explanation. It proposes a structure and operating principles for how the mind works.  What does that look like? The human mind is like a jazz trio, three streams of mentality working in concert. Oddly, however, two of the three players are not susceptible to introspection, giving the illusion of a singular consciousness. This evidence-based essay in cognitive psychology offers a promising new look at the mind that resolves many perplexing problems of psychology.

      Is the mind the same thing as the brain? The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up no space. They're not even physical.   The amazing thing is that there is no scientific theory of how the mind is connected to the brain. But it must be, right?   Mind Without Brain (Nonfiction, 43,000 words) describes the mind without resorting to biological explanation. It proposes a structure and operating principles for how the mind works.  What does that look like? The human mind is like a jazz trio, three streams of mentality working in concert. Oddly, however, two of the three players are not susceptible to introspection, giving the illusion of a singular consciousness. This evidence-based essay in cognitive psychology offers a promising new look at the mind that resolves many perplexing problems of psychology.

    • 3

      Mind Body World: Discovering the Mind, #3
      Mind Body World: Discovering the Mind, #3

      Mind Body World: Discovering the Mind, #3

      William X. Adams
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      Why do we have bodies? We lug over a hundred pounds of meat and water with us everywhere we go. Wouldn't life be easier, more elegant, without that? It's the mystery of the mind and the body. Our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world, but how? If you dissect a brain, you see only gray and white tissue. You find no words, songs, pictures, memories, or colors. Where did the mind go? There must be a connection. If you've wondered why your body doesn't always do what you'd like, or why you have this thought rather than that thought, you'll enjoy being made dizzy by the ideas in this book. A radical re-think of the connection between mind and body leads to some insights about how the mind affects the body and the reverse. It suggests new approaches to learning, medicine, body-image, sex, evolution, and death. It recasts intuition, thinking, feeling, empathy, belief and culture. Mind, Body, World connects the structure of the mind to experience of the body, and once you have physical feet on the ground, you're in the world. 

      Why do we have bodies? We lug over a hundred pounds of meat and water with us everywhere we go. Wouldn't life be easier, more elegant, without that? It's the mystery of the mind and the body. Our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world, but how? If you dissect a brain, you see only gray and white tissue. You find no words, songs, pictures, memories, or colors. Where did the mind go? There must be a connection. If you've wondered why your body doesn't always do what you'd like, or why you have this thought rather than that thought, you'll enjoy being made dizzy by the ideas in this book. A radical re-think of the connection between mind and body leads to some insights about how the mind affects the body and the reverse. It suggests new approaches to learning, medicine, body-image, sex, evolution, and death. It recasts intuition, thinking, feeling, empathy, belief and culture. Mind, Body, World connects the structure of the mind to experience of the body, and once you have physical feet on the ground, you're in the world. 

    • 4

      Nothing in Mind: Discovering the Mind, #4
      Nothing in Mind: Discovering the Mind, #4

      Nothing in Mind: Discovering the Mind, #4

      William X. Adams
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      Every night, you mentally disappear for several hours. During dreamless sleep, you are not present to yourself. You have no thoughts, no experience, no point of view. You enter a period mental emptiness, a Black Hole of Nothingness. In the morning, you wake up and resume life as if nothing unusual had happened. But something unusual did happen. You literally lost your mind for several hours. Surely that needs explanation. Similar micro- sessions of nothingness perforate all of life. Introspection cannot penetrate a mental black hole. From the point of view of personal experience, the Black Hole of Nothingness is the edge of the known mental world. Based on a theory of dream formation, Nothing in Mind offers a new first-person method for exploring the deepest recesses of the mind. This is the fourth volume in the Finding the Mind series of award-winning monographs in philosophical psychology.

      Every night, you mentally disappear for several hours. During dreamless sleep, you are not present to yourself. You have no thoughts, no experience, no point of view. You enter a period mental emptiness, a Black Hole of Nothingness. In the morning, you wake up and resume life as if nothing unusual had happened. But something unusual did happen. You literally lost your mind for several hours. Surely that needs explanation. Similar micro- sessions of nothingness perforate all of life. Introspection cannot penetrate a mental black hole. From the point of view of personal experience, the Black Hole of Nothingness is the edge of the known mental world. Based on a theory of dream formation, Nothing in Mind offers a new first-person method for exploring the deepest recesses of the mind. This is the fourth volume in the Finding the Mind series of award-winning monographs in philosophical psychology.

    • 4

      Death in Mind: Discovering the Mind, #4
      Death in Mind: Discovering the Mind, #4

      Death in Mind: Discovering the Mind, #4

      William X. Adams
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      Nobody really knows what it's  like to die. In the context of personal experience, an investigation into death would seem to be a dead-end. However, Black Holes of Nothingness (BHNs) perforate normal experience. Most are unremarkable such as dreamless sleep, anesthetic blackout, and the nothingness in some kinds of meditation. Since all BHNs are basically the same (nothing), maybe death is just another BHN. If so, we should be able to learn something about it by examining BHNs of the everyday kind using special first-person methods. Reframed like that, death appears to be not a singularity at the end of life but rather, an ordinary event that repeats throughout experience. This is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series.

      Nobody really knows what it's  like to die. In the context of personal experience, an investigation into death would seem to be a dead-end. However, Black Holes of Nothingness (BHNs) perforate normal experience. Most are unremarkable such as dreamless sleep, anesthetic blackout, and the nothingness in some kinds of meditation. Since all BHNs are basically the same (nothing), maybe death is just another BHN. If so, we should be able to learn something about it by examining BHNs of the everyday kind using special first-person methods. Reframed like that, death appears to be not a singularity at the end of life but rather, an ordinary event that repeats throughout experience. This is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series.

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