Best Metaphysics
The complete My Big TOE trilogy has now been combined into one paperback volume at a substantial savings over buying the three volumes separately. It discusses the cultural beliefs that trap our thinking into a narrow and limited conceptualization of reality, defines the basics of Big Picture epistemology and ontology, logically infers the nature of time, space, and consciousness as well as describes the basic properties, purpose, and mechanics of our reality.BOOK 2: DISCOVERY Section 3 explains the characteristics, origins, dynamics, and function of human consciousness.It derives our larger purpose and the psi uncertainty principle as it interrelates psi phenomena, free will, love, consciousness evolution, reality, entropy and physics.Section 4 lays out an operational and functional model of consciousness. Presently, and for the past twenty years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems.My Big TOE represents a model of existence and reality that is based directly on Campbell's scientific research and first hand experience.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Im now on page 200 for my second read. This is the most important book ive ever read."
"Terrific insightful book that includes the rare concept of actively using "common sense" to maintain objectivity when accessing current and potential scientific discoveries with meta-'physics' and our own insights, to gain a better understanding of the Theory Of Everything (TOE)."
"I'll never think of consciousness the same again."
"Thomas Campbell wraps it all up,unbounded,his colorful asides too.This is a book that I will recommoned to anyone that seeks a different perspective on ALL there is."
"A masterful, in-depth analogy of the "Big Picture" of creation and our place as human beings in the grand scale of things."
"If you are a classical scientist, this master work by Thomas Campbell steps all over your big toe and brings to the table what has long been sought by many doctors but most hadn't a clue on how to catalyze it as a single substance."
"I really wanted to wait till I finished the book to give an accurate review, but finishing it may take some time... Thomas Campbell has gone to great lengths, super-human lengths in my estimation, to show how logical and rational his conclusions are. It was a great education in the Scientific Method - I am a fan of true, open minded science - but 200 pages worth was just too much. His insights into the rational mind and its relationship to our sense of self and how we view our world were eye opening. In short, this book would be great for the pure scientist, doctor, or mostly rational/intellectual who is willing to entertain the possibility that maybe, just maybe, there is more to life than what we experience with our 5 senses. This book opens a door on metaphysics & spirituality in the rational sense that is just not often available in the New Age, feel-good, sometimes non-sensical, mushy, religous dogmatic world. I love to read & have read many books on metaphysics & spiritualiy over the years, but too much pure rationality makes me think of mummies and dirt and dust."
This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great book, really great to read Kant."
"I am finding with all the really large print books that the text takes up every speck of space on the page, so there are no page numbers and the traditional spacing and formatting for start of a new chapter, etc."
"I do not read German, so I am unable to compare with the original, but whether Kant intended it or not, he himself, as an individual with a particular voice, disappears from the work, leaving only the philosophy."
"Reading it, thought, is always a difficult task due to the matter and Kant's way of presenting it."
"I bought the wrong book but this book was very interesting!"
"The project at Cambridge is still excellent with this monumental effort by Guyer and Wood."
In Beyond Biocentrism , acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine’s "100 Most Influential People in 2014," and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill-ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. Biocentrism challenges us to fully accept the implications of the latest scientific findings in fields ranging from plant biology and cosmology to quantum entanglement and consciousness. He is credited with several hundred publications and inventions, and over thirty scientific books, including the definitive references in the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine. Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world’s first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic-cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"That was until I came across this book. Authors finally put it all together for me that both my scientific, logical mind and my spiritual mind could put it all together in a manner that it finally all made sense. This was just an idea that Einstein had nearly 50 years ago that the events in the universe can be heard and not just seen and it was only recently that scientists could prove that events in the universe can indeed be heard by human beings. Another wonderful thing that must be mentioned is that one author (Lanza) relies strictly on science and logic, while the other co-author (Berman) believes in a "gut" feeling in spite of the fact that he received a training as a scientist. I must quote one part of the book, where Mr. Berman says: "We trust our instincts. For a long time I denied myself my intuition because my rational mind always felt that there has to be a rational "proof" first before I make up my mind and fully accept my gut feeling. This book has finally thought me a lesson that I will allow my intuition to lead me first, I will trust it unconditionally and rationality will follow in its own time and show itself when it is ready."
"Okay, so my take-aways from the book: * there is no time - things happen simultaneously in experiments when separated. * there is no space - simultaneity points to no separation. * what we perceive is really in our consciousness. * there is no death - as our consciousness is continuous. * the universe is infinite - shows no signs of warping. * randomness is overrated - those million monkeys who were supposed to be able to type Shakespeare's complete works if given enough time? * the Big Bang is probably not causal - the odds of the moon acting the way it does which keeps our temperature livable is a rarity. Interesting insights on how Judeo-Christian faiths include time into their theology as in do these good things and you will get to heaven. * Particles and photons - matter and energy - apparently transmit knowledge across the entire universe instantly. Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. * Non-local correlation - What it really means is that there is an underlying reality that connects all the universe's contents. * Experiment after experiment continues to suggest that we - consciousness, the mind - create space and time, not the other way around....Suffusing the cosmos is the realm of mind, whose observations cause objects to materialize, to assume one property or another, or to jump from one position to another without passing through any intervening space. * The Sun - central to life - would not exist if any of the several of the universe's basic physical constants were even a paltry 1 percent different from their actual values. It would have been a very different story if massive Jupiter didn't exist, gravitationally deflecting or altering the orbits of most incoming hazards. * Certainly no single mental image can adequately capture BEING....But a good start is simply to see conscious experience as a swirl of information, while abandoning the notion that anything is truly external. Loved this book - very provocative in a good way and quite readable even for folks who don't understand physics well enough to hang up a pair of pants correctly."
"To those who are looking for explanations as to where we come from and what does it all mean, this book goes a long way to giving and explanation and meaning of existence and the universe."
"There is an updated version out that I didn't know about when I purchased this one."
"As a believer in the spirit, the non physical portion of existence, I found this book greatly encouraging."
"This second major book written by Robert Lanza is once again a very good book that summarizes the implications of the QT for the understanding of the cosmos and us, one consciousness."
"Book does a nice job of bringing science and the metaphysical mysteries closer together."
Best Ethics
With an Introduction that outlines Marcus’s life and career, the essentials of Stoic doctrine, the style and construction of the Meditations, and the work’s ongoing influence, this edition makes it possible to fully rediscover the thoughts of one of the most enlightened and intelligent leaders of any era. “The emperor Marcus Aurelius, the proverbial philosopher-king, produced in Greek a Roman manual of piety, the Meditations, whose impact has been felt for ages since.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"In this case, the Hays translation is the hardcover, while the authors who translated the paperback and Kindle versions aren't specified."
"Compare the translations of the first paragraph for example: This version: Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth."
"Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard, accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”. Before I get into details, I must say that reading Meditations was one of the hardest, but most rewarding experiences in my own personal growth. There is no reason to feel unhappy, unfulfilled, or unappreciated , and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius offers advice to anyone who is looking for self help, self love, and a rational way of directing life. Sharing his seat of power is the one move that summarizes Marcus Aurelius’s entire life; the fear of power and the duty embedded in him through his interest in Stoicism, a philosophy that grounds itself on self-restraint, reason, and fate."
"Wonderful collection of ancient wisdom that never goes out of date and is as helpful today (and desperately needed) as it was when it was first written hundreds of years ago."
"Clear, readable modern translation that feels like a conversation over a couple a beers."
"I had read this a long time ago, and was quite happy to find it was free on Amazon."
"Pretty low quality material but what do you expect for the price."
"This translation is simple and easy to read."
Best Aesthetics
Kenya Hara compares this form of communication with an “empty container“. Author of Designing Design.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great meditative read."
"i read it at least once a month."
"A personal meditation on the color and feeling of white, Hara's work is a series of overlapping observations that build to a whole."
"Unconventional and thoughtful."
"lots of thoughts on Japanese aesthetic and culture."
"Very simple small book by Kenya Hara."
"This is just one of the best design books ever... it talks about a design philosophy that kenya hara has and use for his work, you really must get it!"
Best Logic
The edition's new Previews connect a section's content to real-life scenarios, using everyday examples to "translate" new notions and terms into concepts that readers unfamiliar with the subject matter can relate to. He is married to Dr. Linda Peterson, who retired from teaching philosophy at the University of San Diego in 2015.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I compared this text to one my father used for his logic course from 20 years ago."
"Great book!"
"All in all - nice book introducing Logic and its concepts to people who are unexposed to the subject, or never studied it formally."
"Very useful for my college class!"
"Philosophy what can i say--The more i read it the more i like it:)."
"some wear and tear but all pages are there."
"The book, being a international version, is a copy."
Best Epistemology
As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise , this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. ”Nichols expands his 2014 article published by The Federalist with a highly researched and impassioned book that's well timed for this post-election period... strongly researched textbook for laymen will have many political and news junkies nodding their heads in agreement." ”This may sound like a rant you have heard before, but Nichols has a sense of humour and chooses his examples well. ”Excellent...makes important points and offers valuable insight, particularly when it comes to the role of the internet and social media in our political environment...essential reading for anyone interested in this pressing subject." Citizens - now so proudly ill-informed that they cannot even make use of expert opinion in fulfilling their civic role - must rediscover a sense of responsibility. ".
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Find Best Price at Amazon"While many of the studies in the book have now been called into question (an excellent illustration of one of Tom Nichols' sections about when experts are wrong), I still found it fascinating how I, a person with a graduate-level degree and extensive self-education through extensive reading, knew so very little about so much. How much do we see today, though, of people without any education or training or experience, claiming that their opinion is as valid as any expert, or dismissing experts as nothing more than "elites," as if that allows them to be ignored? In a time when our entire world is built around technology and knowledge and the experts who understand them, Americans are forgetting how that all happened. The populace must understand enough to make the decisions to choose both smart experts (Knowers) and policymakers (Deciders) and understand the limits of each. But without experts and policy makers who listen, and an educated, informed populace that helps choose and respect them.....I worry for the world of my children."
"A painful, insightful yet honest bio on today's chronic illnesses when it comes to disrespecting knowledge and intelligence!"
"But shockingly absent from his analysis is the possibility that experts might be corrupt, or have their own agenda - that a scientist might deny climate change while working for the Trump Administration, or take home a fat paycheck from Coca Cola for insisting that sugar-water doesn’t make people fat. Apparently Political Science degrees now include PhD-level courses on Botany, Ecology, and Medicine – who knew?"
"There are also books that are important because they speak to urgent needs of a particular time."
Best History of Philosophy
With an Introduction that outlines Marcus’s life and career, the essentials of Stoic doctrine, the style and construction of the Meditations, and the work’s ongoing influence, this edition makes it possible to fully rediscover the thoughts of one of the most enlightened and intelligent leaders of any era. “The emperor Marcus Aurelius, the proverbial philosopher-king, produced in Greek a Roman manual of piety, the Meditations, whose impact has been felt for ages since.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"In this case, the Hays translation is the hardcover, while the authors who translated the paperback and Kindle versions aren't specified."
"Compare the translations of the first paragraph for example: This version: Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth."
"Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard, accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”. Before I get into details, I must say that reading Meditations was one of the hardest, but most rewarding experiences in my own personal growth. There is no reason to feel unhappy, unfulfilled, or unappreciated , and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius offers advice to anyone who is looking for self help, self love, and a rational way of directing life. Sharing his seat of power is the one move that summarizes Marcus Aurelius’s entire life; the fear of power and the duty embedded in him through his interest in Stoicism, a philosophy that grounds itself on self-restraint, reason, and fate."
"Clear, readable modern translation that feels like a conversation over a couple a beers."
"I had read this a long time ago, and was quite happy to find it was free on Amazon."
"Pretty low quality material but what do you expect for the price."
"This translation is simple and easy to read."
"I think it would be easier to read if I didn't have to squint to read it."