Tag: Feeling

Connected Curing the Pandemic of Everyone Feeling Alone Together


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English | 2014 | ISBN: 1433682583 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 1.9 mb
Technology has allowed us to connect with more people in more places than ever before. Sure we have "friends" we even have "followers" and yet, a silent epidemic is sending shock waves straight into our living rooms. What is this hidden disease? Loneliness.Popular author Erin Davis knows what it’s like to feel lonely. She knows how it feels to have many friends, a full schedule, and a pit in her stomach. As she wrestled her own feelings of loneliness to the ground, Erin started to feel like the scientist charged with finding the cure for the lonely epidemic-a journey that has proved to be funny, encouraging, and helpful.What is causing the pain of loneliness to gnaw at our hearts? What does God know about feeling alone? While swimming in a sea of people, what’s a lonely girl to do? Where should she turn for a life raft?Erin has traveled across the country to talk with other women and answer these questions for us all. Come along in Connected to learn about her journey as well as the stories of women who are probably a lot like you!

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The Feeling of Life Itself Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed [Audiobook]


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English | August 25, 2020 | ASIN: B08FXSNC2P | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 34m | 352 MB
Author: Christof Koch | Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
A thought-provoking argument that consciousness-more widespread than previously assumed-is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack
In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted-the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain-three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of physics as any other piece-give rise to subjective experience? Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the brain. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Koch outlines such a theory, based on integrated information.

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Democratic passions The politics of feeling in British popular radicalism, 1809-48


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English | ISBN: 1526137046 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 25 MB
This book challenges the assumption – just as alive today as it was in the nineteenth century – that the political sphere was an arena of reason in which feelings had no part to play. It shows that feelings were a central, albeit contested, aspect of the political culture of the period. Radical leaders were accused of inflaming the passions; the state and its propertied supporters were charged with callousness; radicals grounded their claims to citizenship in the universalist assumption that workers had the same capacity for feeling as their social betters (denied at this time). It sheds new light on the relationship between protest movements and the state by showing how one of the central issues at stake in the conflict between radicals and their oppressors was the feelings of the propertied classes.

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Perfect Feeling Judged on Social Media [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CN1Q5L7L | 2024 | 7 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 399 MB
Author: Rosalind Gill
Narrator: Elisabeth Sastre

Social media is replete with images of ‘perfection’. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’, don’t try hard enough and you’re slacking. Rosalind Gill challenges polarized perspectives that see young women as either passive victims of social media or as savvy digital natives. She argues the real picture is far more ambivalent. Getting likes and followers and feeling connected to friends feels fantastic, but posting material and worrying about ‘haters’ causes significant anxieties. Gill uses young women’s own words to show how they feel watched all the time; worry about getting things wrong; and struggle to live up to an ideal of being ‘perfect’ yet at the same time ‘real’. It’s the wake-up call we all need.

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The Feeling Economy How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy (2024)


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2021 | 185 Pages | ISBN : 3030529762 | 4.1 MB
As machines are trained to "think," many tasks that previously required human intelligence are becoming automated through artificial intelligence. However, it is more difficult to automate emotional intelligence, and this is where the human worker’s competitive advantage over machines currently lies. This book explores the impact of AI on everyday life, looking into workers’ adaptation to these changes, the ways in which managers can change the nature of jobs in light of AI developments, and the potential for humans and AI to continue working together.

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Empathy From Perception to Understanding and Feeling Others’ Emotions


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009454145 | 74 Pages | PDF (True) | 1 MB
Empathy provides a cognitive and emotional bridge that connects individuals and promotes prosocial behavior. People empathize with others via two complementary perceptual routes: Cognitive Empathy or the ability to accurately recognize and understand others’ emotional states, and Affective Empathy or the ability to ‘feel with’ others. This Element reviews past and current research on both cognitive and affective empathy, focusing on behavioral, as well as neuroscientific research. It highlights a recent shift towards more dynamic and complex stimuli which may capture better the nature of real social interaction. It expands on why context is crucial when perceiving others’ emotional state, and discusses gender differences, biases affecting our understanding of others, and perception of others in clinical conditions. Lastly, it highlights proposed future directions in the field.

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