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UNINA9910780862803321 |
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Thagard Paul |
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Titolo |
The brain and the meaning of life [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Thagard |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2010 |
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1-4008-3461-9 |
1-282-93616-6 |
9786612936166 |
1-282-45799-3 |
9786612457999 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. We All Need Wisdom -- Chapter Two. Evidence Beats Faith -- Chapter Three. Minds are Brains -- Chapter Four. How Brains Know Reality -- Chapter Five. How Brains Feel Emotions -- Chapter Six. How Brains Decide -- Chapter Seven. Why Life Is Worth Living -- Chapter Eight. Needs and Hopes -- Chapter Nine. Ethical Brains -- Chapter Ten. Making Sense Of It All -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
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Why is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? The Brain and the Meaning of Life draws on research in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to answer some of the most pressing questions about life's nature and value. Paul Thagard argues that evidence requires the abandonment of many traditional ideas about the soul, free will, and immortality, and shows how brain science matters for fundamental issues about reality, morality, and the meaning of life. The ongoing Brain Revolution reveals how love, work, and play provide good reasons for living. Defending the superiority of evidence-based reasoning over religious faith and philosophical thought experiments, Thagard argues that minds are |
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brains and that reality is what science can discover. Brains come to know reality through a combination of perception and reasoning. Just as important, our brains evaluate aspects of reality through emotions that can produce both good and bad decisions. Our cognitive and emotional abilities allow us to understand reality, decide effectively, act morally, and pursue the vital needs of love, work, and play. Wisdom consists of knowing what matters, why it matters, and how to achieve it. The Brain and the Meaning of Life shows how brain science helps to answer questions about the nature of mind and reality, while alleviating anxiety about the difficulty of life in a vast universe. The book integrates decades of multidisciplinary research, but its clear explanations and humor make it accessible to the general reader. |
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UNINA9910142671703321 |
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2006 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference |
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[Place of publication not identified], : I E E E, 2005 |
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9781509091072 |
1509091076 |
9780780393608 |
0780393600 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (lxviii, 2377 pages) : illustrations |
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Electronic instruments |
Measurement |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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A particularly difficult case in electromagnetic induction tomography (EMT) is to image internal structure at the centre of the object space when the material at the outer regions is conductive. This is because the outer material acts as an electromagnetic screen, which partially excludes the magnetic field from the interior space and hence reduces |
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the sensitivity at the centre. In this paper, we propose a methodology to image the conductivity distribution of an annular object when internal conductive objects are present. Finite element simulations were carried out to investigate how sensor coil outputs change with factors such as the size of internal object with regards to the external one. Linear and non-linear image reconstruction methods are applied to the tomographic data that are collected from a newly developed EMT system and image results are given in the paper. |
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UNINA9910974724903321 |
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At your service : service-oriented computing from an EU perspective / / edited by Elisabetta Di Nitto ... [et al.] |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 |
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9786612240157 |
9780262255080 |
0262255081 |
9781282240155 |
1282240153 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (577 p.) |
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Cooperative information systems |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Web services - Research - Europe |
Internetworking (Telecommunication) |
Application program interfaces (Computer software) |
Business enterprises - Computer networks |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Presents results of collaborative research projects of the European Community's Information Society Technologies Programme about service-oriented computing. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 BIONETS; 3 Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments; 4 Unified Discovery and Composition of Heterogeneous Services; 5 Compositional Service Engineering Using Semantic Interfaces; 6 Developing Self-Adaptive |
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Mobile Applications and Services with Separation-of-Concerns; 7 Sensoria; 8 ASTRO; 9 WS-DIAMOND; 10 SeCSE-Service-centric System Engineering; 11 User-centric Service Creation and Execution; 12 INFRAWEBS; 13 Enabling Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services; 14 AMIGO |
15 Security and Dependability in the Evolving Service-centric Architectures16 GridTrust; 17 Security-by-Contract (SDC) for Software and Services of Mobile Systems; 18 The ATHENA Framework for Cross-Organizational Business Processes; 19 Dependability in Service-Oriented Systems; 20 Consolidating Research Results; 21 S-Cube; About the Authors; Index |
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Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented computing (SOC) represent a promising approach in the development of adaptive distributed systems. With SOC, applications can open themselves to services offered by third parties and accessed through standard, well-defined interfaces. The binding between the applications and the services can be, in this context, extremely loose--enabling the ad hoc creation of new services when the need arises. This book offers an overview of some current research in the field, presenting the results of eighteen research projects funded by the European Community's Information Society Technologies Program (IST). The projects, collaborations between industry and academia, have produced practical, achievable results that point the way to real-world applications and future research. The chapters address such issues as requirement analysis, design, governance, interoperability, and the dependability of systems made up of components owned by third parties. The results are presented in the context of two roadmaps for research, one developed by European industry involved in software development and the other by researchers working in the service area. The contributors report first on the "Infrastructure Layer," then (in the bulk of the book) on the "Service Integration Layer," the "Semantic Layer," and finally on the issues that cut across the different layers. The book concludes by looking at ongoing research on both roadmaps. |
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