Out-Problem The Problem: A Thought Map Redefining the Human–Problem RelationshipI. What Kind of Book Is This?Not a quick‑fix manual, but a philosophical journey from endurance to coexistence. It weaves stories of historical figures into a framework for responding to human difficulty. Its core thesis: problems themselves do not produce results; solutions do. From this seed grow four existential roles (Bearer, Solver, Setter, Co‑Exister), four solution types (Incremental, Hyb...

About This BookThe Life of Our Brain is a neuroscience book written for people living in the present age—not a cold scientific text, but a deep dialogue with your own nervous system.Have you ever wondered, Why don't I do what I know I should do? Have you ever been startled awake in the deep of the night by your own thoughts, feeling your stomach tighten over a conversation that hasn't even happened yet? Have you ever felt unable to control your emotions, un...

Book DescriptionThere are ultimately only two kinds of relationships we can have with habits: either we become their beneficiary, or we become their victim. The deciding factor does not lie in the habits themselves, but in whether the systematic nature of our self-awareness can be effectively executed.A habit is the active practice of repetition. It is not a life goal, but rather the means, the method, and the tool for achieving a goal. Habits can shape character, and chara...

What Can This Book Bring You?Happiness often feels fleeting — it comes quickly, disappears just as fast, and leaves us wondering why life can feel empty even when we seem to have so much.This book does not promise instant answers. Instead, it invites you onto a more authentic path: one that does not avoid unhappiness or dismiss pain, but treats them as messengers and entryways to depth. It shows that happiness is not a gift, but a skill that can be practiced. You don't need...

There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are persuaded to separate from the body and live in the head. Disconnected from the body’s intelligence, we also disconnect from the wholeness of...

**“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAn illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them**The human brain is ...

In a world overflowing with abundance and information, the calm and clarity of stoicism has never been more necessary. In this new book, bestselling author Ken Mogi explores the ancient Greek philosophy as well as its resonance with other cultures around the world, not least his own Japanese perspective. The result is a new version of stoicism that is practical, global, future-proof and, above all, optimistic.With his expertise as a neuroscientist, Mogi uncovers the cognitive found...

Essays that explore quirky, counterintuitive aspects of brain function and "make us realize that what goes on in our minds is nothing short of magical" (Scientific American).Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind collection of popular science essays that seeks to expand our knowledge o...

"Truly a great and life changing read!"This is an important first collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level.Building on Gregory Bateson’s famous book Towards an Ecology of Mind ...

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolution...

The central concepts of the theory of interpersonal neurobiology.Many fields have explored the nature of mental life from psychology to psychiatry, literature to linguistics. Yet no common “framework” where each of these important perspectives can be honored and integrated with one another has been created in which a person seeking their collective wisdom can find answers to some basic questions, such as, What is the purpose of life? Why are we here? How do we know things, how are ...

Bostrom’s last book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), sparked a global conversation on AI that continues and widens to this day. That book, which despite its academic style became a New York Times bestseller, focused on what would happen if AI goes wrong.But what if AI goes right? Suppose we succeed in developing superintelligence safely and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this unlocks. We would then achieve full unempl...