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Reality and its Representation

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ISBN: 9781527285187
AuthorDowdall, Paul
BindingPaperback
Quick overview A way to build an understanding of yourself and the world, working from scratch and without recourse to mysticism, exceptionalism or complacency.
€12.50

Topics covered include, perception, emotion, representation and language, reality, information, society, love, and truth. Ideas of the mind, the soul, consciousness and free will, religion, power, money, and politics, are placed in this practical framework.

Intended as a guide to decision making and action. You feel emotion and you can observe. From these basic ideas, using language and stories, you build an understanding of the world. Societies form and change, individuals change and the stories that are used to explain these changes are modified to accommodate new observations and changing emotional states.

This book is an explanation of how these stories and changes occur. How, as an individual and also as part of a society, you can find a way to obtain an understanding that is meaningful and useful.

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Topics covered include, perception, emotion, representation and language, reality, information, society, love, and truth. Ideas of the mind, the soul, consciousness and free will, religion, power, money, and politics, are placed in this practical framework.

Intended as a guide to decision making and action. You feel emotion and you can observe. From these basic ideas, using language and stories, you build an understanding of the world. Societies form and change, individuals change and the stories that are used to explain these changes are modified to accommodate new observations and changing emotional states.

This book is an explanation of how these stories and changes occur. How, as an individual and also as part of a society, you can find a way to obtain an understanding that is meaningful and useful.

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