Is Intelligence an Algorithm?
The Dutch author of this penetrating book has a doctorate in chemistry and works as a patent examiner, a job that requires considerable analytical acumen,…… Read More »
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
Thinking Outside the Brain Box
Aris Bos is a physician who now teaches philosophy of science and neurophilosophy at the University of Utrecht. In this wide-ranging book about why humans…… Read More »
I am Not a Brain
Markus Gabriel is still in his late 30s, and has since 2009 held the chair of epistemology in the University of Bonn. An indication of…… Read More »
BlindSpots
Subtitled '21 good reasons to think before you talk', this is popular philosophy at its best, questioning cliches and generalities such as we create our…… Read More »
OVERTONES AND UNDERCURRENTS
I once met a very conventional psychiatrist (his words) who told the story of how he had come to use exorcism in his work. One…… Read More »
Ayahuasca: Rituals, Potions and Visionary Art from the Amazon
Authors: Arno Adelaars, Christian Ratsch, Claudia Muller-Ebeling
Reviewer: Oliver Robinson
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
I was listening to BBC Radio 2 several days ago. It was about 5.30pm, which means about six million listeners. The comedian Simon Amstell came…… Read More »
THE WILEY BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Authors: Glenn Hartelius, Harris L. Friedman
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
In the last issue, I reviewed the Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality published in 2012 – this equally important Handbook was published a couple…… Read More »
I – REALITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
This is the most brilliant and extraordinary book I have read on the nature of subjective reality and the spiritual path. About three years ago,…… Read More »
Foreshoring the Unconscious
Those of us who attended the continental meeting in Poland reported elsewhere in this issue will have had the interesting experience of collective foreshoring, led…… Read More »
Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness
This is a reprint of an issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies about illusionism – the view that phenomenal consciousness is an introspective illusion…… Read More »