We live in the digital age where our sense of self and identity has moved beyond the body to encompass hardware and software. Cyborgs, online representations in social media, avatars, and virtual reality extend our notion of what it means to be human. This book looks at the progression of self from the biological to the technological using a multidisciplinary approach. It examines the notion of personhood from philosophical, psychological, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence perspectives, showing how the interface between bodies, brains, and technology can give rise to new forms of human identity. Jay Friedenberg presents the content in an organized and easy-to-understand fashion to facilitate learning. A gifted researcher, author, and classroom teacher, he&nbsp;is one of the most influential voices in the field of artificial psychology.

Future of the Self: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Personhood and Identity in the Digital Age

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Friedenberg, Jay

Psychology & Counseling

University of California Press

Humanity’s Future examines the psychological and social impact of likely future events related to advanced technology. Will humanity feel useless in a future where most tasks are automated and robots do all the work? Will society experience alienation and angst, collapsing into a state of decadence and corruption? How might we improve ourselves, as technology advances in unprecedented ways? Who gets to decide? Can we advance civilization and eliminate genocide and war? Philosophical, scientific and pragmatic issues interwine complexly here, and uncertainties abound, but Dr. Friedenberg unravels the various possiblities with a masterful clarity.

Humanity's Future: How Technology Will Change Us

Science & Math

Humanity+

Artificial Psychology

Is it possible to construct an artificial person? Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have for decades been developing computer programs that emulate human intelligence. This book goes beyond intelligence and describes how close we are to recreating many of the other capacities that make us human. These abilities include learning, creativity, consciousness, and emotion. The attempt to understand and engineer these abilities constitutes the new interdisciplinary field of artificial psychology, which is characterized by contributions from philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and robotics. This work is intended for use as a main or supplementary introductory textbook for a course in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, or the philosophy of mind. It examines human abilities as operating requirements that an artificial person must have and analyzes them from a multidisciplinary approach. The book is comprehensive in scope, covering traditional topics like perception, memory, and problem solving. However, it also describes recent advances in the study of free will, ethical behavior, affective architectures, social robots, and hybrid human-machine societies.

Artificial Psychology: The Quest for What It Means to Be Human

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Psychology Press

Over the past several decades, the sciences have witnessed a significant paradigm shift. Our traditional notions of order, energy, causality and methodology have all been upended. A new set of views has arisen that enables us to better understand and examine the complexity of nature. In this perspective, behavior is nonlinear, order emerges spontaneously and responses are best understood as the movement of trajectories through multi-dimensional space. This book examines the role that dynamical systems, complexity science, networks, and fractals play in helping to explain the most difficult thing of all: ourselves.

Dynamical Psychology: Complexity, Self-Organization and Mind

Behavioral Sciences

ISCE Publishing

Aphorisms From A to Z: A User's Guide to Life

Aphorisms from A to Z is the result of more than a decade of work. It is one of the most comprehensive and qualitative sources of sayings from any single author, consisting of over two thousand different aphorisms on more than six hundred topics. The book is intended to inspire and serve as a practical guide to living a better life. It starts with an overview of aphorisms, describing what they are in relation to other sayings such as proverbs and quotations. Also included in the introduction are interviews with contemporary aphorists and aphorist scholars, describing the role that this ancient literary form now serves today. The book concludes with lists of both classical and current aphorists for the interested reader who wants to pursue more.

Aphorisms from a to Z: A User's Guide to Life

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Golden Palace Pub

This book contains 1,000 geometric tile patterns presented in full color. They can be used for a variety of art, design, and craftwork applications including architectural ornament, fashion design, graphic design, illustration and fine art, jewelry, knitting and needlecraft, logo and trademark creation, package design, pottery and ceramics, quilt patterns, rug and carpets, sculpture and metalwork, textile and clothing patterns, tiles, wallpaper patterns, and web and app design. This is the most comprehensive collection of such patterns and is available now for the first time. Samples from all of the major geometric categories are included. Brief descriptions of each category are provided along with a list of online and book resources. Alternate versions of each pattern are provided to serve as an inspiration for creating your own. Electronic copies of the images are available from the author.

Geometric Tile Patterns

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

lulu.com

Surface Pattern Design

Artists, graphic designers, and craftspeople are always looking for new sources of inspiration and new ideas to incorporate into their work. This book is an extensive print and electronic library of symmetrical patterns in changing arrangements and colorways, inspired by traditional iconic motifs found in various cultures throughout history. The patterns are suited to many applications, including quilt, tile, fabric, jewelry, architectural, product, website, and graphic design. The enclosed CD-ROM allows the reader to reproduce, resize, or otherwise modify all of the designs for his or her own purposes.

1001 Symmetrical Patterns

Roesch, Jacob

Reference

Rockport Publishers

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