Mind-Wandering & Meta-Awareness - A Conversation with Jonathan Schooler

Name: Mind-Wandering & Meta-Awareness - A Conversation with Jonathan Schooler
Brand: Open Agenda Publishing Inc.
SKU: 9781771700962
Price: 2.49 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-771-70096-2

de Howard Burton (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Open Agenda Publishing Inc.

avril 2021

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This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Jonathan Schooler, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This wide-ranging conversation examines how mind-wandering can serve as a window into the psychological world of meta-awareness. further topics include the nature of consciousness, mindfulness, creativity, free will, verbal overshadowing and more. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Back to the Future, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:I. Meta-Beginnings - Grappling with universal vaguenessII. Getting Precise - Definition and measurementsIII. Brain-Wandering? - What’s happening inside IV. Creativity - Mind-wandering’s upsideV. Responses - Views from the other sideVI. On the Wild Side - Free will and multiple universesVII. Outstanding Issues - From the Decline Effect to an encouraging universeAbout Ideas Roadshow Conversations:

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Howard Burton (auteur)

Howard is an independent filmmaker and author. He is the creator of the upcoming four-part documentary series, Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration, and Pandemic Perspectives (2022). In 2012 he founded Ideas Roadshow, creating over 1,000 videos and 120 books based upon detailed, long-format conversations with internationally renowned experts across the arts and sciences.Howard holds a PhD in physics and an MA in philosophy, and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1999-2007. He lives in France.

Auteur(s) : Howard Burton