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Hilary believes fervently that consciousness is more than the sum of our biology. When she receives a position at a prestigious think tank, she develops a novel experiment to prove that humans are intrinsically altruistic, but the results are something she never anticipated.

My name is Zane Zimmer. To most folks, I live a seemingly charmed life as a Regal lord and the heir apparent to the powerful, wealthy House Zimmer, and the gossipcasts breathlessly follow my every swaggering move across the Archipelago Galaxy. I’m also a powerful psion capable of telekinesis, telepathy, and telempathy, and my deadly skills and prowess with my stormsword have made me the golden boy of the Arrows, the Imperium’s elite fighting force.

A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden. “An extraordinary book, the very best of science writing, because it is about not just...

Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future. Leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed—and that it keeps you from building a great company.

She remembers everything, the love, the loss, the pain… He remembers nothing. Can love find two separated souls a second time? Lady Margaret is a restless soul staving off love until she finds a purpose in life that can fulfill her in more ways than a husband can. She's had love and lost it with her brother's best friend who went missing after they shared a summer of passion. When he shows up unannounced on her doorstep three years later, she's not convinced that giving him a second chance will have a different outcome. Jonathan, the Duke of Somersby, has amnesia. When he wakes up ...

01011001 01101111... This is how the message arrives. Not with a greeting, but with a death sentence, decoded by SETI from a tightbeam transmission in 2025. It is the first hint that humanity is not alone. It is the last warning they will ever receive. It began with ‘Oumuamua. The anomalous interstellar object that tumbled through our solar system in 2017, a splinter in the mind of science. Was it a natural phenomenon, or something else? The world’s astronomers debated, while a few lone voices in the intelligence community and academia warned it was a scout. They were dismissed as ...

Discover the captivating world of philosophical paradoxes and moral challenges in "Hard Problems," an illuminating guide that transforms complex philosophical puzzles into accessible, engaging discussions. This carefully crafted exploration takes readers deep into classic philosophical dilemmas that have intrigued thinkers for centuries, from the probabilistic mysteries of the Lottery Paradox to the profound ethical questions raised by the Trolley Problem. Written for both newcomers to philosophy and experienced thinkers, this book serves as an essential bridge between abstract ...

You are not your brain. For more than three centuries, science has assumed that consciousness is produced by the brain—that your thoughts, awareness, and identity are nothing more than neural activity. But what if that assumption is wrong? At a time when AI researchers are asking whether machines might become conscious, this book presents a bold, evidence-based argument: AI can’t be conscious—because consciousness doesn’t come from computation at all. Instead, growing scientific evidence suggests something far more radical: Consciousness may be fundamental to reality itself. If ...

Is consciousness a late accident of evolution — or a fundamental feature of reality itself? In The Conscious Cosmos, Clayton Louis Turnage presents a rigorous philosophical case for cosmopsychism: the view that the universe as a whole is the primary bearer of consciousness, and that individual minds are localized expressions within that unity. Beginning with the hard problem of consciousness, the book examines why reductionist materialism struggles to explain subjective experience. It then evaluates panpsychism and its central difficulty—the combination problem—before proposing a bold...

In today's complex business environment, the ability to solve problems systematically and make strategic decisions effectively is more crucial than ever. This comprehensive guide presents a proven seven-step framework that breaks down the science of problem-solving into practical, actionable steps.

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.

Stop barking, pulling, and chaos — discover the 10 secrets dog trainers rely on every day. Award-winning service dog trainer Kendall Brown has spent over 13 years raising and training dogs that must be calm, focused, and reliable in every situation. In 10 Secrets of a Lazy Dog Trainer, she reveals the exact shortcuts professionals use to turn chaos into calm — without endless drills, expensive classes, or confusing jargon. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Understand how your dog thinks, feels, and makes decisions Discover your own Dog Parent Type and how it shapes your training style ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing at breathtaking speed. Large language models can write essays, generate code, compose music, diagnose disease, and simulate conversation with astonishing fluency. As discussions of artificial general intelligence (AGI) intensify, one question becomes unavoidable: If machines can think, what makes us human? In More Than Machines, award-winning Stephen Hawley Martin explores the critical distinction between machine intelligence and human consciousness. Drawing on philosophy of mind, neuroscience, quantum physics debates, and research into near-death ...

First proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer's extraordinarily prescient metaphysics - if understood along the lines thoroughly elucidated and substantiated in this volume - offer powerful answers not only to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, but also to modern philosophical dilemmas such as the hard problem of consciousness - which plagues mainstream physicalism - and the subject combination problem - which plagues constitutive panpsychism 

“A masterful guide to help all those who are building self-awareness.”—yung pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lighter A revolutionary guide to identifying self-loss—that feeling of being adrift, disconnected from your true Self—and discovering the freedom that comes from...

You’re working harder than ever, so why does the finish line keep moving further away? It’s time to stop blaming yourself for a system that was redesigned without your input and finally learn how to stop the slide. Millions of hardworking people feel it every single day, but they rarely say it out loud: something in the economy simply doesn't add up anymore. You wake up early, you work the long hours, you take on the extra responsibilities, and you follow every rule you were ever taught about "success." Yet, despite doing everything right, the finish line feels like it’s being dragged...

The story begins when a mysterious, system-wide event inserts a perfect, elegant proof for the complex mathematical problem. R(5,5)=43 into every human computer system. Commander Katarina Volkov, a military officer whose instincts were honed by a past tragedy, assembles a team of specialists on Ares Station to decipher the message from the unknown intelligence, dubbed "The Collective". The team includes Dmitri Petrov, a synesthetic mathematician who perceives logic as music; Yelena Kozlov, a brilliant but rigid logician driven by a fear of chaos ; and Anastasia Novak, an unnervingly quiet ...

A moment of violence - a snap judgement - a life changed to the core. Ed Runyon bolted from the NYPD after a runaway teen case fell through the cracks and turned into a nightmarish murder. Now, he's learned to bury the rage that consumed him, cope with depression, and enjoy life as a Mifflin County sheriff's detective in rural Ohio. Ed is trying to relax on his day off when Columbus PD Detective Shelly Beckworth comes to Mifflin County in search of a girl who vanished after a pop-up party.

If you are a new manager, the hardest part of the job is usually not the workload. It is the conversation you know you need to have and keep postponing. Someone is late again. Someone keeps pushing back with attitude. Someone is missing details they should already know. A strong employee is slipping. Two people are spreading tension through the team. You know the issue is real. You know waiting is making it worse. What you need is a clear way to handle it before small problems become team problems. Say It Before It Spreads is a practical guide for new managers who need to correct behavior ...

What is the universe made of — matter, energy, or something deeper? In The Architecture of Reality, Clayton Louis Turnage explores one of the most profound questions in human thought: Is reality fundamentally physical, or is it structured in a way that points beyond material explanation? Drawing from geometry, thermodynamics, cosmology, information theory, and contemporary philosophy of mind, this book traces a bold but disciplined inquiry into: The emergence of structure from undifferentiated unity The geometric foundations of space and symmetry Entropy and the arrow of time The ...