How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts
with the world “This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world …

Is there a right way to study how the brain works? Following the empiricist's tradition, the
most common approach involves the study of neural reactions to stimuli presented by an …

How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are
questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because …

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware
mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual …

The goal of this book is to present the science behind decision-making in humans. In
particular, one of the main concepts the author puts forward in the book is that, if our brain is …

According to the free energy principle biological agents resist a tendency to disorder in their
interactions with a dynamically changing environment by keeping themselves in sensory …

The future progress of cognitive science looks set to involve ever-increasing efforts to anchor
research to the real world poles of sensing and acting. Thus anchored, time, world and body …

To understand the mind and its place in Nature is one of the great intellectual challenges of
our time, a challenge that is both scientific and philosophical. How does cognition influence …

In this important book, Susan Hurley sheds new light on consciousness by examining its
relationships to action from various angles. She assesses the role of agency in the unity of a …