enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Shankar Vedantam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankar_Vedantam

    His first nonfiction book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, was published in 2010. [1] His second nonfiction book (co-written with Bill Mesler), Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain, was published in 2021.

  3. The Mind and the Brain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind_and_the_Brain

    In this effort, the book cites past thinkers such as the Buddha and William James, and discusses research in the areas of neuroplasticity, mindfulness meditation and quantum physics, to support the concept of mental force as a force that can be developed and applied to exercise free will at the quantum level in the brain, to use the power of ...

  4. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incognito:_The_Secret...

    The book was reviewed as "appealing and persuasive" by the Wall Street Journal [8] and "a shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing" by The Independent. [9] A starred review from Kirkus Reviews described it as "a book that will leave you looking at yourself—and the world—differently."

  5. Book excerpt: "The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World ...

    www.aol.com/book-excerpt-hidden-globe-wealth...

    The hidden globe is a mercenary world order in which the power to make and shape law is bought, sold, hacked, reshaped, deterritorialized, reterritorialized, transplanted, and reimagined.

  6. Unconscious mind - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind

    In psychoanalysis and other psychological theories, the unconscious mind (or the unconscious) is the part of the psyche that is not available to introspection. [1] Although these processes exist beneath the surface of conscious awareness, they are thought to exert an effect on conscious thought processes and behavior. [2]

  7. The Man with the Power - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Power

    Harold J. Finley, an unassuming college professor, develops a device that, once implanted in the brain, can manipulate objects through mental control of forces and energy that surround us. Although disregarded as talentless by his family and coworkers, Finley makes an impact with a U.S. space agency in the hopes that he can assist them in ...

  8. The Elephant in the Brain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_in_the_Brain

    The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life is a 2018 nonfiction book by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson. Simler is a writer and software engineer, while Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. The book explores self-deception and hidden motives in human behaviour.

  9. Ten-percent-of-the-brain myth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-percent-of-the-brain_myth

    The concept gained currency by circulating within the self-help movement of the 1920s; for example, the book Mind Myths: Exploring Popular Assumptions About the Mind and Brain includes a chapter on the 10% myth that shows a self-help advertisement from the 1929 World Almanac with the line "There is NO LIMIT to what the human brain can ...