Social Reality

Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.

Can you ever truly experience your own death? Quantum physics says no. Everyone dies. But what if, from your own perspective, death is impossible to experience? Reality doesn't follow one timeline. Every quantum event creates branching worlds where all outcomes happen. You exist in branches where you survived—but not in branches where you died.

Performed by Richard Armitage, Anthony Boyle, Emila Fox and Hugh Quarshie HOUSEHOLD GIZMOS WITH A MIND OF THEIR OWN. THE WRONG KIND OF COLD CALLS. AND THE CREEPING SUSPICION THAT NONE OF THIS IS REAL. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments – stories to...

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience, revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world-other people and our relation to them.

Modern thought treats placebo as a statistical inconvenience, a ghost to be subtracted so the “real” mechanisms of healing may stand. Yet this spectral effect may be the clearest revelation of how human reality is actually constructed. Placebo is not an accident of biology; it is the biological imprint of belief itself. This work argues that the human being is not a passive observer of the world but an active architect of inner reality. Expectation is a physiological force. Meaning modifies chemistry.

Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy.

Frank Turek and Phoenix Hayes cut through the cultural confusion gripping our world today and guide you back to the unshakable truths of God’s Word. Returning to the Source of All Reality For decades, society has grown increasingly untethered from objective truth. But now it has raised the...

The world's best introduction to philosophy, Knowledge, Reality, and Value explains basic philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, such as: How can we know about the world outside our minds? Is there a God? Do we have free will? Are there objective values? What distinguishes right actions from wrong actions? The text clearly explains the most important arguments about these things, and it does so a lot less boringly than most books written by professors.

The Hierarchy of Awareness & The Nature of Things explores one of humanity’s oldest and most profound questions: What is the true nature of reality and consciousness? In this thought-provoking work, physician and philosopher Dr. Hessam Noralahi presents a comprehensive framework that examines life, awareness, morality, and the structure of the universe through the concept of a hierarchy of awareness. Drawing from science, philosophy, psychology, and human experience, the book explores how different levels of consciousness shape perception, attention, decision-making, and meaning in our lives.

The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability.

Être un vraie mordue d'une vedette inspire parfois des élans de passion et de folie, des moments intenses, bien des battements de coeur et des soupirs. Nombreuses sont les admiratrices qui se sont déjà imaginées avoir la chance de vivre une histoire d’amour avec leur idole. Et si elles prenaient le temps de coucher sur papier le fruit de cette imagination débordante? Entre (fan) fiction et réalité réunit neuf histoires d’admiratrices de Charlie Gomez, un jeune chanteur qui a connu la popularité grâce à un concours de chant télévisé.

In a user-friendly, conversational style, King’s explains the four worlds of a shaman and the principles of Huna. Then, citing case studies, he guides us in how to change reality in each of the four worlds, bringing in ESP, telepathy, the perception of auras, telekinesis, dreaming, magical flight, soul retrieval, and the great power of healing.

You may be living in a simulation right now. Not science fiction. Not paranoia. Math. If advanced civilizations can create realistic simulations of conscious beings, and if they create billions of them, then statistically you're almost certainly in one. The odds are overwhelming. The evidence is everywhere: Quantum mechanics behaves like optimized rendering code. Physical constants are calibrated to impossible precision. Consciousness collapses probability waves. Reality glitches when you're not looking.

Emma wants to be a doctor. Raj wants to paint murals that make people smile. Linh wants to design bridges that connect villages across rivers. Each of them has a big dream — and a clever plan to make it come true. But dreams don't happen by wishing alone. Emma studies how the heart and lungs work, and practises kindness when her little brother scrapes his knee.

When her younger sister runs away to Paris to live with a German officer high up in Hitler’s favor, English socialite Kat embarks on a dangerous journey to save her sister from the Nazis. Glamour, romance, and espionage collide in this exciting, high-stakes adventure. As the daughter of Sir...

La tesis vertebral de la obra de Jacobo Grinberg, que desarrolla en su libro La teoría sintérgica,sostiene que la realidad perceptible resulta de la interacción de la activación cerebral y el espacio-tiempo (la lattice). Asentadas sus bases teóricas, Grinberg exploró dicha relacióna lo largo de varios libros, entre ellos La construcción de la realidad. En sus páginas explica que tanto el mundo externo y tangible como el interno conformado por los pensamientos y sueños son una descripción que depende de los individuos y sus historias de vida.

When Grace @FilthyBlueBird tweeted her dirtiest, most delicious secret desires to MovieStar @VaughnAsher she never expected a reply, let alone a face-to-face meeting and an offer of a lifetime. And when MovieStar @VaughnAsher figured out the woman vacationing at his family’s St. Thomas resort was the author of all those dirty hashtags a fan was relentlessly tweeting at him...well that was a challenge he couldn’t pass up. He was more than happy to #RockHerFilthyWorld.

The message of modern physics is that physical reality has, at its frontiers, all the aspects of a transcendent order. At the foundation of things, elementary particles can exert instantaneous long-distance influences on each other, can be meaningfully said to have mind-like properties, and can exist in states which are, as Heisenberg wrote, "not quite real, but between the idea of a thing and a real thing."

In The War Between Mind and Matter: Berkeley and Idealism of Reality, Boris Kriger stages the ultimate philosophical showdown between idealism and materialism—and the results are far less predictable than you might expect. With wit, intellectual rigor, and an irreverent sense of humor, Kriger guides the listener through Berkeley's radical vision of a world made of ideas, pits it against the strongest objections materialism can muster, and reveals why every attempt to refute idealism only proves its point.

Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings 50 years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute to bear on this question and offers a provocative explanation of why continued attempts to divide the land will have no more success than would negotiations to establish a one-state solution.