Editora: Hero
Why are we often convinced that we’re right even when we’re wrong? Why are we jealous, or paranoid, even when we have absolutely no reason to be? Why is it so easy for fake news to spread around the globe and fool us? It’s because we don’t see the world as it is, rather we reconstruct it in our mind.
The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists. We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his quest for answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the philosophy of mind. The goal is to solve the hard problem: to explain the wondrous, eerie fact of "phenomenal consciousness"—the redness of a poppy, the sweetness of honey, the pain of a bee sting. What does this magical dimension of experience amount to? What is it for? And why has it evolved? Humphrey presents here his new solution. He proposes that phenomenal consciousness, far from being primitive, is a relatively late and sophisticated evolutionary development. The implications for the existence of sentience in nonhuman animals are startling and provocative.Ver livro
"We Are Our Own Gods" invites you on a spiritual and imaginative journey, where each person is a god playing their own cosmic game in the infinite universe. This book opens portals to parallel worlds, explores the power of thought, and reveals how every soul can create and transform dreams into reality.It's not just a book it's an invitation: step into the gods' playground and discover your own path to awakening.Ver livro
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While the fight over gay marriage has been bitterly contested and debated for much of the 21st century, it’s still somewhat difficult to believe that just 50 years ago, homosexual activity was illegal in nearly every state in America. Homosexuals faced discrimination that surpassed that of even African-Americans or suspected Communists, and their lifestyles were so taboo that they were typically considered to be a security risk because it would be so easy for someone who wished to harm the country to blackmail them. In 1950, a Senate Subcommittee on Investigations reported, “In further considering the general suitability of perverts as Government employees, it is generally believed that those who engage in overt acts of perversion lack the emotional stability of normal persons. In addition there is an abundance of evidence to sustain the conclusion that indulgence in acts of sex perversion weakens the moral fiber of an individual to a degree that he is not suitable for a position of responsibility. Most of the authorities agree and our investigation has shown that the presence of a sex pervert in a Government agency tends to have a corrosive influence upon his fellow employees. These perverts will frequently attempt to entice normal individuals to engage in perverted practices. This is particularly true in the case of young and impressionable people who might come under the influence of a pervert. Government officials have the responsibility of keeping this type of corrosive influence out of the agencies under their control. It is particularly important that the thousands of young men and women who are brought into Federal jobs not be subjected to that type of influence while in the service of the Government. One homosexual can pollute a Government office.” Indeed, in the decades that followed, the FBI kept lists of known homosexuals, and law enforcement agencies regularly raided known gay bars and other similar establishments.Ver livro
Learn more about the history of those countries. The topics addressed will be these: Angkor Wat-- The temple was built as the state temple for the Khmer Empire at the demand of Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaodharapura (, contemporary Angkor), the Khmer Empire's capital. It was constructed in the early 12th century to honor the Hindu god Vishnu, but by the end of the century, it had been changed to a Buddhist temple. Angkor Wat is a fascinating structure, dating back hundreds of years, and it’s impressive how much of it has remained intact. The Khmer Empire--Historians describe Cambodia as the Khmer State or the Angkorian Empire (Khmer:) from the 9th century to the 15th century, when it was a Hindu/Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia. The empire, which developed from the old societies of Funan and Chenla, governed and/or "vassalized" the majority of mainland Southeast Asia and parts of Southern China, covering from the suggestion of the Indochinese Peninsula northward to modern-day Yunnan province in China, and from Vietnam westward to Myanmar. The Khmer Empire was greater at its peak than the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) that existed at the exact same period. The Siamese-- Siam was just a much different name for what's now referred to as Thailand. The Siamese are the people who live there, though they're never ever called as such any longer. Thailand is a fascinating country, with its own culinary arts, culture, history, royalty, infrastructure, and influence on the world. To learn more about these “Thai” people before they were called Thai, when they were Siamese, is to learn about those people’s roots.Ver livro
On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed one of the gravest technological disasters in human history: the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Occurring at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's No. 4 reactor in Pripyat, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the event not only claimed lives but also left a legacy of environmental and human suffering that persists to this day. This calamity stands as the deadliest nuclear accident in history, both in terms of its immediate human cost and its staggering financial implications. It remains one of only two incidents—alongside the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan—classified as a Level 7 event, the highest rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Responding to the crisis required a monumental effort, involving over 500,000 personnel for emergency operations and subsequent environmental cleanup. This massive endeavor cost approximately 18 billion Soviet rubles, a figure equivalent to $68 billion in 2019 when adjusted for inflation. The scale of the response underscores the unprecedented challenges posed by the catastrophe, as well as the Soviet Union's desperate attempts to mitigate its consequences. The disaster itself unfolded during a scheduled safety test designed to assess the reactor's ability to maintain critical operations during a power outage. The test was carried out on an RBMK-type reactor, a design already known to have significant safety flaws. During the test, a sudden and unexpected drop in power output brought the reactor to near-zero levels. The operators, unaware of the reactor's increasing instability due to incomplete and misleading operating instructions, attempted to bring the power back up to the required level. However, these efforts placed the reactor in a precarious and highly unstable state.Ver livro
