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  • A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will

    by Prof Peter Ulric Tse ...
    This book offers an intellectually fierce defence of Libertarian Free Will seen from a neuroscientific and biological perspective. Tse argues that causation in living systems is dominated by non-linear goal-seeking automatic feedback loops and a continual criterial reparameterization of what will count as an adequate solution to goal fulfilment. For this reason, outcomes are neither determined nor ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Kansai Japanese

    The Language of Osaka, Kyoto, and Western Japan: This Japanese Phrasebook and Language Guide Teaches the Kansai Dialect

    by Peter Tse ...
    Finally, a systematic approach to learning the language of Kansai's boardrooms, shops, bars, a and boudoirs."-Kansai time OutKansai Japanese contains everything you need to know about Kansai-ben, the most important dialect of the Japanese language. Spoken in the Kansai region, which includes the well-known cities of Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe, Kansai-ben has long been considered a cryptic dialect even ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Free Imagination

    The deep roots of creativity, freedom and meaning in the human brain and mind

    by Peter Ulric Tse ...
    Free Imagination argues that the brain's capacity to imagine is the fundamental basis of human Free Will. Laws of physics need not apply in our internal simulations, so virtually anything is possible there. And since some of our actions can follow from that which we imagine, especially from processes of deliberation that involve imagining possible scenarios and outcomes, our actions inherit the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Neural Basis of Free Will

    Criterial Causation

    by Peter Ulric Tse ...
    A neuroscientific perspective on the mind–body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective. In contrast with philosophers who use logic rather than data to argue whether mental ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Pelvic Floor Ultrasound

    Principles, Applications and Case Studies

    Edited by Lewis Chan, Stephanie The, Peter Stewart, Vincent Tse ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    There is increasing interest in using ultrasound for assessment of pelvic floor disorders such as voiding dysfunction , pelvic organ prolapse and faecal incontinence. Ultrasound can also be a useful imaging modality for urodynamics and pelvic floor physiotherapy. Whilst ultrasound equipment is widely available around the world many clinicians may not have access to structured training in the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Engineering Asset Management - Systems, Professional Practices and Certification

    Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS)

    Edited by Joseph Mathew, Peter W. Tse, Rocky Lam, King Wong, C.N. Ko ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceeding represents state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Eight World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM). The Proceedings of the WCEAM 2013 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as:Asset condition ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Shrimp and Prawn Welfare in the Wild-Caught Fishing Industry

    Global Review and Recommendations for Research and Policy

    by Ren Ryba, Shannon M Davis, Tse Yip Fai, Peter Singer ...
    At 37 trillion individuals per year, wild-caught shrimp and prawns appear to be the single most numerous group of animals directly killed for human food consumption on the planet. Recent scientific developments suggest that at least some species of shrimp are sentient beings, and, should that be the case, there is a need for policies that could improve shrimp welfare.This book delves into the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    by Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... Read more

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  • A Universe Of Consciousness

    How Matter Becomes Imagination

    by Giulio Tononi, Gerald M. Edelman ...
    What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a full-scale theory of consciousness based on direct observation of the human brain in action. Their pioneering work, presented here ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Four Realms of Existence

    A New Theory of Being Human

    by Joseph E. LeDoux ...
    One of the world’s leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are.Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spheres of existence. The body is physical—the source of aches and pains. But the mind is mental; it perceives, remembers, believes, feels, and imagines. Although modern science has largely eliminated this ... Read more

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  • Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

    by Gerald Edelman ...
    How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and speculation across the ages. In this direct and non-technical discussion of consciousness, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman draws on a lifetime of scientific inquiry ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Anatomy of Bias

    How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options

    by Jan Lauwereyns ...
    An integrative account of the neural underpinnings of decision making, emphasizing the ways in which some information sources are given more weight than others.I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the single aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded account of attention, or bias versus sensitivity, or how the activities of neurons allow us to decide ... Read more

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