In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel. Resisting the conventional wisdom that says that if the mind is a large neural network it cannot simultaneously be a ...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela) 瓦雷拉1946年生于智利，2001年5月2819病逝于巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物学家、认知科学家、哲学家和佛教静心修行者。他曾任巴黎法国国家科学研究中心的研究主任、巴黎综合理工大学的认知科学和认识论教授。瓦雷拉一生的主要著作包括Principles of Biological Autonomy(1979)、Autopoiesis and Cognition：The Realization of the Living(1980)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与汤普森和罗施合著)等。瓦雷拉是认知科学中生成认知研究纲领的主要倡导者...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

"The Phenomenological Mind" is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered include: What is phenomenology?; naturalizing phenomenology and the empirical cognitive sciences; phenomenology and consciousness; consciousness and self-consciousness, including perception and action; t...(展开全部)

Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive guide for a Western audience combines the wisdom from the teachings of the Buddha with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Clear and friendly, this in-depth practice manual builds on the nine-stage model of meditation originally articulated by the ancien...(展开全部)

Acclaimed author and spiritual leader Ken Wilber points the way to a realistic path of understanding between science and religion, unbridled by romanticism or idealism.

美國當今哲學與思想家，以整合西方心理學與東方靈修著稱，被譽為超個人心理學界天才、意識研究領域的愛因斯坦、新世界觀的原創者，他提出了整合自然、文化、宇宙和知識的大一統理論，提供了科學和社會嶄新的典範基礎。重要著作有《意識的光譜》《萬法簡史》《靈性之眼》《靈性復興--科學與宗教的整合道路》《恩寵與勇氣》等十餘本書。

The conceptual history of cognitive science remains for the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book, Jean-Pierre Dupuy--one of the principal architects of cognitive science in France--provides an important chapter: the legacy of cybernetics. Contrary to popular belief, Dupuy argues, cybernetics represented not the anthropomorphization of the machine but the mechanizati...(展开全部)