Tag: Brains

December 10, 2024

Minds, Brains, and Doxa for Inclusive Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Diverse Entrepreneurs

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Free Download Minds, Brains, and Doxa for Inclusive Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Diverse Entrepreneurs (International Studies in Entrepreneurship, 47) by Kirsten Mikkelsen, Annika Wolf
English | April 3, 2024 | ISBN: 3031501632 | 236 pages | MOBI | 2.88 Mb
This book explores ways in which inclusive entrepreneurship enhances bottom-up entrepreneurial activity for economic and societal transformation, particularly in remote areas. It focuses on the role of stakeholders in shaping a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem (doxa) and how entrepreneurial ecosystems in larger cities and urban regions differ from those in rural regions, which often have weaker economic infrastructures. It examines the relationship between the internal and external entrepreneurial ecosystems in higher education for fostering entrepreneurial mindsets. Topics such as women and diversity in entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education are explored. This integration of inclusive and emancipatory aspects in entrepreneurship research and practice is of benefit to researchers, scholars, academics, practitioners, and policy makers interested in and have a passion for (re)building entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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September 29, 2024

A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

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Free Download A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262049023 | 357 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
In A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds, Francisco Aboitiz provides a brief history of life, the brain, and cognition, from the earliest living beings to our own species. The author proceeds from the basic premise that, since evolution by natural selection is the process underlying the origin of life and its evolution on earth, the brain-and thus our minds-must also be the result of biological evolution. The aim of this book is to narrate how animal bodies came to be built with their nervous systems and how our species evolved with culture, technology, language, and consciousness.

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September 16, 2024

Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance

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Free Download Donald Beecher, "Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds: Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance"
English | ISBN: 0773546804 | 2016 | 496 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds, Donald Beecher explores the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of the brain as they affect the study of fiction. He builds upon insights from the cognitive sciences to explain how we actualize imaginary persons, read the clues to their intentional states, assess their representations of selfhood, and empathize with their felt experiences in imaginary environments. He considers how our own faculty of memory, in all its selective particularity and planned oblivion, becomes an increasingly significant dimension of the critical act, and how our own emotions become aggressive readers of literary experience, culminating in states which define the genres of literature. Beecher illustrates his points with examples from major works of the Renaissance period, including Dr Faustus, The Faerie Queene, Measure for Measure, The Yorkshire Tragedy, Menaphon, The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolphus, and The Moral Philosophy of Doni. In this volume, studies in the science of mind come into their own in explaining the architectures of the brain that shape such emergent properties as empathy, suspense, curiosity, the formation of communities, gossip, rationalization, confabulation, and so much more that pertains to the behaviour of characters, the orientation of readers, and the construction of meaning. Discussing a breadth of topics ? from the mysteries of the criminal mind to the psychology of tears ? Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds is the most comprehensive work available on the study of fictional worlds and their relation to the constitution of the human brain.

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September 12, 2024

Brains How They Seem to Work

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Free Download Brains: How They Seem to Work By Dale Purves
2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0137055099 | EPUB | 6 MB
For 50 years, the world’s most brilliant neuroscientists have struggled to understand how human brains really work. Today, says Dale Purves, the dominant research agenda may have taken us as far as it can–and neuroscientists may be approaching a paradigm shift. In this highly personal book, Purves reveals how we got to this point and offers his notion of where neuroscience may be headed next. Purves guides you through a half-century of the most influential ideas in neuroscience and introduces the extraordinary scientists and physicians who created and tested them. Purves offers a critical assessment of the paths that neuroscience research has taken, their successes and their limitations, and then introduces an alternative approach for thinking about brains. Building on new research on visual perception, he shows why common ideas about brain networks can’t be right and uncovers the factors that determine our subjective experience. The resulting insights offer a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. * Why we need a better conception of what brains are trying to do and how they do it Approaches to understanding the brain over the past several decades may be at an impasse * The surprising lessons that can be learned from what we see How complex neural processes owe more to trial-and-error experience than to logical principles * Brains–and the people who think about them Meet some of the extraordinary individuals who’ve shaped neuroscience * The "ghost in the machine" problem The ideas presented further undermine the concept of free will

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June 6, 2024

The Brains and Brawn Company How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3JBDBM9 | 2024 | 9 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Robert E. Siegel
Narrator: Robert Siegel
The grounded, clear-sighted guide you need to blend digital and traditional business functions for long-term competitive advantage. Business leaders are continually told they need to embrace digital disruption wholeheartedly to thrive in the 21st century. Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. False! Nothing in life or business is ever that simple. In The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical, venture capitalist and Stanford Business School lecturer Robert Siegel brings the digital innovation conversation back down to earth. He shows that, while important, digital is only part of the answer, and it’s never the only answer.

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April 25, 2024

Consciousness How our brains turn matter into meaning

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Free Download Consciousness: How our brains turn matter into meaning by John Parrington
English | December 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1837730784 | 208 pages | PDF | 1.36 Mb
What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads?Where do imaginative, creative, or spiritual thoughts come from – can these really be the product of nerve impulses in the brain? And is the human mind radically different from that of other species, or is our uniqueness more superficial than real? In this book, Oxford biologist John Parrington proposes a radical new theory of human consciousness, arguing that a qualitative leap in consciousness occurred during human evolution as language and tool use transformed our brains. Rejecting outdated views of the brain as a hard-wired circuit diagram, he draws on the latest insights from neuroscience to show that meaning is created within our heads through a dynamic interaction of oscillating brain waves. This new model of consciousness not only provides a material basis of our innermost thoughts but also explains why the mind can sometimes go wrong, causing deep mental distress.

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