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Why music moves us / Jeanette Bicknell. Preface Acknowledgements The Tears if Odysseus History: Music Gives Voice to the Ineffable Tears, Chills and Broken Bones The Music Itself Explaining Strong Responses to Music (I) Explaining Strong Responses to Music (II) The Sublime Revisited Conclusion: Values References Index Link to more info from publisherTags: aesthetics, books, music, psychology
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The Monty Hall problem : the remarkable story of math's most contentious brainteaser / Jason Rosenhouse. Anyone here familiar with the Monty Hall problem, and why the correct answer is what it is? We just got this book, and I'm not planning to read it, but, if anyone can give me a quick explanation, I'd appreciate it. If you're curious what this is about: Problem is that Monty Hall (gameshow host from a while ago, I think) shows you three doors. Behind two of them, there are goats, and behind a third is a car. Presumably, you want the car, not the goats. You choose a door, but aren't allowed to open it. Monty chooses a door, always selecting one that hides a goat. He opens the door, and there's a goat. He asks if you want to stick with your originally-selected door, or pick the other door. For some reason, the mathematicians say you should always switch doors. I don't understand this at all. Halp, plz eta: Currently puzzling over the Wikipedia entry for "Monty Hall Problem." It's pretty comprehensive-looking, although I don't get it yet. I think the little drawings, of smiling faces, and cars, and goats, are helping. Tags: books
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*On the origin of stories : evolution, cognition, and fiction / Brian Boyd. ISBN: 9780674033573 CONTENTS: Introduction: animal, human, art, story -- Book 1: Evolution, art, and fiction -- Part 1: Evolution and nature -- Evolution and human nature? -- Evolution, adaptation, and adapted minds -- The evolution of intelligence -- The evolution of cooperation -- Part 2: Evolution and art -- Art as adaptation? -- Art as cognitive play -- Art and attention -- From tradition to innovation -- Part 3: Evolution and fiction -- Art, narrative, fiction -- Understanding and recalling events -- Narrative: representing events -- Fiction: inventing events -- Fiction as adaptation -- Book II: From Zeus to Seuss: origins of stories -- Part 4: Phylogeny: the Odyssey -- Earning attention (1): natural patterns: character and plot -- Earning attention (s): open-ended patterns: ironies of structure -- The evolution of intelligence (1): in the here and now -- The evolution of intelligence (2): beyond the here and now -- The evolution of cooperation (1): expanding the circle -- The evolution of cooperation (2): punishment -- Part 5: Ontogeny: Horton hears a who! -- Levels of explanation: universal, local, and individual -- Levels of explanation: individuality again -- Levels of explanation: particular -- Meanings -- Conclusion: retrospect and prospects: evolution, literature, criticism. *Paul in ecstasy : the neurobiology of the Apostle's life and thought / Colleen Shantz. ISBN: 9780521866101 CONTENTS: Introduction -- What ecstasy? : an assessment of the misregard -- At first sight : the cultural bias against religious ecstasy -- The view from here : biases in New Testament studies -- Cognicentrism in New Testament studies -- Ecstatics are Catholic, aren't they? -- Pauline oversight -- Paul, opponent of ecstatic abuses -- Well, maybe once, but only by accident : conversion as the catchall for Paul's ecstasy -- Through the reading glasses -- Paul's brain : the cognitive neurology of ecstasy -- Ecstatic religious experience and human neurology -- Cross-cultural ecstatic experience -- A brief history of the human brain -- The neurological and cerebral basis for ecstatic experience -- The model of neurological tuning -- Paul's ecstasy : textual and somatic -- Critical issues in the interpretation of 2 Cor. 12:1-4 -- A neurological rereading of 2 Cor. 12:1-4 -- Paul's voice : parsing Paul's ecstatic discourse -- Other features of ecstasy -- Beyond paradise -- Visions and revelations -- Corinthians 3-5 -- Romans 8 -- Ecstasy and suffering -- Paul's body of knowledge -- Transformation and union -- Embodying death -- Paul's practice : discerning ecstasies in practice -- Spirit possession -- Neurological and social anthropological features -- Spirit possession in Corinth -- Soul journey -- Social anthropological definitions -- Paul's use of ASC -- Pneumatika -- Prophecy in taxonomy of social anthropology -- Paul's comments -- Implications : Paul's public position on ASC -- The whole Paul : a short course in (non-deterministic) complexity. Tags: books, consciousness, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion
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