Isbn: 9798172764028 - reality.exe: consciousness, free will, and the hidden architecture of reality (4 resultados)

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What if reality is not quite what you think it is For most of human history, we have assumed that the world around us is fundamentally real, that our choices belong to us, and that consciousness somehow emerges from the machinery of the brain. But advances in artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, neuroscience, physics, and philosophy are forcing us to revisit assumptions that once seemed beyond question.In Reality.exe: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Hidden Architecture of Reality, Manuel Lopes explores one of the most unsettling possibilities of the modern age: what if reality operates more like an information system than we realize Beginning with Nick Bostrom's famous simulation argument, the book moves beyond the familiar question of whether we are living inside a computer. It examines the mathematical structure of the universe, quantum strangeness, déjà vu and collective false memories, the mystery of consciousness, the limits of free will, and the possibility that human behavior is far more conditioned than most of us recognize.Along the way, Reality.exe confronts a more controversial question: why do some people relentlessly question reality while others rarely seem compelled to do so Rather than reducing people to 'players' and 'NPCs,' the book examines what psychology and consciousness research can actually tell us about differences in inner experience, internal monologue, self-awareness, conformity, cognitive shortcuts, social conditioning, and independent thought. It also explores why the language of NPCs can become intellectually seductive-and ethically dangerous-when metaphor is mistaken for fact.But the deeper question is not whether some people are more 'real' than others.It is how much of any human life is actually being lived consciously.How many of your beliefs did you choose How much of your behavior is habitual How much of your attention is being directed by algorithms, media, culture, and other people And if free will is more complicated than it appears, what does it actually mean to become the author of your own life Blending simulation theory, philosophy of mind, psychology, artificial intelligence, physics, and questions of meaning, Reality.exe does not ask you to believe that reality is a simulation. It asks something more interesting: what can the possibility teach us about the reality we already inhabit Whether we are living in base reality, an artificial world, or something stranger than either possibility, one mystery remains.Something is experiencing all of this.And something is asking why.…

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