Reality Check: Is the World What You Think? by Alex Altshuler
How do we know what we know? How are the mind and body related? What does it mean to exist? These questions have intrigued humanity for millennia. Reality Check presents a unique fresh approach to unraveling these enduring puzzles and other complex questions about the world. Drawing on the latest advances in neuroscience, mathematics, and psychology, the book offers a pragmatic perspective for understanding our reality.
Reality Check is a short popular philosophy book written in simple and approachable layman language and will appeal to both, nonprofessional thinkers and practicing philosophers.
Readers may discover a novel methodology for understanding the world, gaining new perspectives on topics such as existence, factual truth, meaning, mind, determinism, artificial intelligence, and more. They can further apply the book’s central concept as a framework to clarify various complex issues.
It is commonplace that our actions and decisions are guided by our accumulated and organized prior life experiences that may be viewed as constituting our internal world model. While the exact neural mechanisms of this world model formation and access to it are not well understood yet, we can still examine our world model’s operational, rather than physical account. The first half of Reality Check (Chapters 1 through 3) suggests and defines basic functional building blocks of memory, nemes, and, based on widely available scientific data, advances a convincing hypothesis of how our world model is being formed, changed, and utilized over our lifetimes. The second half of the manuscript (Chapters 4 and 5) is devoted to applying this proposed framework as a robust basis for investigating various aspects of human civilization. Such subjects as existence, factual truth, meaning, mind, determinism, artificial intelligence, and many others are reappraised from this new perspective, often bringing unexpected outcomes.
The book will challenge readers to reassess their assumptions about the world and civilization.
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Author Bio:
Alex Altshuler is an engineer by trade with a lifelong passion for science and philosophy. He is a prolific innovator who has originated dozens of patented inventions in various fields and one-of-a-kind ground-breaking solutions throughout his career, making him no stranger to unconventional thinking. In this book as well, he suggests a unique consistent approach to understanding our world and civilization as bio-social constructs originating in our minds.
My Story.
What is the world and what is our place in it? I was searching for answers to these questions from my early youth. I was looking for solutions in science, but to no avail. I have read dozens of philosophy books, from the Presocratics to contemporary philosophers. None of them gave me a satisfactory explanation. So I set out to develop my own approach to understanding our world and ourselves, using the combined strengths of science and philosophy. This intellectual journey took many years, but by now, I can claim it to be a success. Pieces of the puzzle of our existence came together into one picture. I have been virtually testing this picture for a long time, applying it to understand and clarify different conundrums and to examine various events. It proved to be quite robust and useful. So I feel obliged to share this vision of the world with all of you. Reality Check is a concise introduction to this new conceptual framework filled with examples of how it may be applied to various otherwise unsolvable issues.
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