From a technological perspective, these essays address current theories of consciousness and subjective experience, embracing new ideas from the physical sciences alongside more spiritual and artistic aspects of human existence. This volume develops from the studies published in Roy Ascotts highly successful Reframing Consciousness, documenting the very latest research from ...(展开全部)

The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe in the late Ice Age provokes awe and wonder in equal measure. What do these animals and symbols, depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, sophisticated and fully formed, seemingly from nowhere ...(展开全部)

Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compilation of more than three decades of Ascott's philosophies on aesthetics, interac...(展开全部)

From its inception in the early nineteenth century, the museum has been more than a mere historical object; it has manufactured an image of history. In collecting past artifacts, the museum gives shape and presence to history, defining the space of a ritual encounter with the past. The museum believes in history, yet it behaves as though history could be summarized and complete...(展开全部)

Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings - and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and thei...(展开全部)

作者 罗杰·彭罗斯（ROGER PENROSE）是牛津大学劳斯鲍尔荣誉数学教授。 艾伯纳·西蒙尼（Abner Shimony）是波士顿大学哲学和物理学荣誉教授。 南希·卡特莱特（Nancy Cartwright）是伦敦政治经济学院哲学、逻辑与科学方法教授。 史蒂芬·霍金 （Stephen Hawking）是剑桥大学卢卡斯数学教授。 编者 马尔科姆·朗盖尔（Malcolm Longair）是剑桥大学杰克逊自然哲学教授。 译者 阳曦，自由撰稿人、译者，毕业于北京航空航天大学宇航学院，曾从事航天研发工作。目前专注科普及幻想文学创作和翻译，《环球科学》、果壳网等知名媒体及新媒体长期合作译者，曾荣获“全国优秀科普作品”奖及全球华语科幻星云奖“最佳翻译小说”银奖，已出版译作《赶往火星》《元素的盛宴》《从一到无穷大》等。

Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and updates his current thinking in ...(展开全部)

Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and updates his current thinking in ...(展开全部)

作者 罗杰·彭罗斯（ROGER PENROSE）是牛津大学劳斯鲍尔荣誉数学教授。 艾伯纳·西蒙尼（Abner Shimony）是波士顿大学哲学和物理学荣誉教授。 南希·卡特莱特（Nancy Cartwright）是伦敦政治经济学院哲学、逻辑与科学方法教授。 史蒂芬·霍金 （Stephen Hawking）是剑桥大学卢卡斯数学教授。 编者 马尔科姆·朗盖尔（Malcolm Longair）是剑桥大学杰克逊自然哲学教授。 译者 阳曦，自由撰稿人、译者，毕业于北京航空航天大学宇航学院，曾从事航天研发工作。目前专注科普及幻想文学创作和翻译，《环球科学》、果壳网等知名媒体及新媒体长期合作译者，曾荣获“全国优秀科普作品”奖及全球华语科幻星云奖“最佳翻译小说”银奖，已出版译作《赶往火星》《元素的盛宴》《从一到无穷大》等。