Аллен Уилис — последние издания книг

This brief book, containing a lifetime of wisdom and experience, challenges our cherished assumptions about human nature.

Allen Wheelis starts from the premise that human beings do not know themselves because deception―including self-deception―is not only a strategy for survival, it is the basis of the social contract whereby man trades his individual freedom for the security of a tribe or state. Are we really motivated by ideals such as freedom, equality, and justice? In fact these are only distractions useful to the state, which demands conscience of us but is itself above all moral constraints, seeking only power. Were we to understand or dwell on our individual mortality, we would not be willing to make the necessary sacrifices or participate in the bloody business of the group.

This unsparing map of the human condition is presented in hypnotic prose and illustrated by vivid fictional narratives. Unsparing as it is, the book finds its way to an episode of transcendent love, for this too is part of the way we are.

Книга, которую Вы держите в руках, написана Д.Хофштадтером вместе с его коллегой и другом Дэниелом Деннеттом и в `соавторстве` с известными мыслителями XX века: классическая антология эссе включает работы Хорхе Луиса Борхеса, Ричарда Доукинза, Джона Сирла, Роберта Нозика, Станислава Лема и многих других. Как и в `ГЭБе` читателя вновь приглашают в удивительный и парадоксальный мир человеческого духа и `думающих` машин. Здесь представлены различные взгляды на природу человеческого мышления и природу искусственного разума, здесь исследуются, сопоставляются, сталкиваются такие понятия, как `сознание`, `душа`, `личность`... `Глаз разума`…

With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.

Argues that the pursuit of power is the main force shaping human relations, suggests that isolation is the price for escape from this condition, and reassesses human nature from the perspectives of history and biology

When Dr. Melville, a psychoanalyst, falls in love with one of his patients, a beautiful and neurotic young woman, he begins to lose faith in the basic assumptions of psychoanalysis and questions his own sanity

"At a time when slick, superficial, psychological works are foisted on the lay-public, Allen Wheelis has written a serious treatise."--San Francisco Sunday Examiner-Chronicle