What is it about?

An amazing exploration of the mind is now possible for everyone. With the Colors of The Sunrise, the first volume of the series The Psychotherapy of Whole: Aesthetics, Philosophy, Humanism, and Cognitive Science the reader has the opportunity to engage with a book that utilizes the methods and structure of self-help, popular science, and expressive therapies books, to change all the sides of the human experience as it manifests in the social, psychological, bodily, and cognitive life. Science, psychotherapy, philosophy, music, art and digital reality for the first time come together in a book phenomenon and a series designed during 16 years to provide the first A.I Psychotherapy model internationally, focused on a profound study that has been evaluated by leading names from many of the areas analyzed around the world. The reader gradually introduced to a healing result as it is offered clinical treatment to the senses, the psychological reality, and the cognitive mind structures, activating inactive cerebrum areas and getting informed about the manner of changing their behavior and thought. The direct healing and the way to acquire therapeutic results in everyday life are supported by explanations that become easily understood by everyone. The book has been based on the background of advanced academic research, lending from the recent and updated investigations in an extraordinary number of areas. These include but are not limited to the disciplines of social sciences, psychiatry, philosophy, expressive art therapies, exact sciences, history, politics, artificial intelligence, and humanities that are presented from a global perspective. It is an exceptional interpretation of human cognitive structures that satisfy the curiosity and assist everyone in developing their intelligence, and investigate their self, acquiring a balanced theory of mind that can be applied removing the barriers of the daily dichotomy, which everyone encounters while conceptualizing reality. Linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, robotics, physics, and mathematics reconsidered as positive parts of the universal structures. It is explained the manner of uniting the cognition staying in perfect harmony with the today's knowledge acquired by cognitive science, and the knowledge that traditionally contributes to the flourishing of the human mind through the philosophical, and traditional approaches, as they have been described during the centuries globally. Through the familiarization with the approach, the reader experiences and learns a functional manner of relating to their body and environment, changing their dysfunctional behavior concerned with many split cognitive structures. This manner discovered through the cutting-edge clinical and scientific study of the author. As a Licensed Social Worker and Cognitive Scientist, Anthony N. Skarvelakis devoted many years of professional investigation to reach a cognitive metaprogram as a model that expands human thought, giving the solution searched for years regarding the design of the first complete model of A.I Psychotherapy globally. Τhis program applies successfully to human and artificial intelligence. It is a program, (using a term employed in academia with the same meaning in A.I, robotics, cognitive science, cognitive psychology, cognitive oriented psychotherapeutic approaches), of critical importance today that lays at the intersection of research in Artificial Intelligence and Psychotherapy.

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Why is it important?

The book’s design supports acquaintance with the scientific methodology providing the chance to the reader to benefit from the fundamental purpose of the book that is the openness to the dialogue and the critical thought of the readers. It is analyzed the modern model of association of the body, mind, brain, and outer world reality that is already successfully applied in many theories and domains globally based on the contribution of science, art therapy, structuralist psychoanalysis, and gestalt psychotherapy. The book includes a very interesting therapeutic narrative that is accompanied by digital art therapy also based on techniques utilized in the intersection of clinical neuroscience and expressive art therapies. These techniques have been proved to be successful for the healing of all the senses of the reader, the treatment of mental, cognitive, developmental, and personality disorders, and the relief of symptoms presented in a broad spectrum of psychopathology. The approach focuses on the use of methods proved effective in psychology, psychotherapy, and neuroscience. That way enhanced the treatment of senses and the acquaintance with the scientific methodology provided in the other parts of the book, offering the chance to the reader to benefit from the plasticity process. It is an approach of high quality that covers all the issues from a global perspective, staying open to the dialogue to facilitate the critical thought of the readers. The state of the art tool of artificial intelligence is utilized to reach to an interdisciplinary approach of logic and therapy of cognitive mind structures based on the reunion of knowledge, logic, and the acknowledgment of the manner that the reader can learn, evolving their cerebrum functions and enhancing the quality of their life in many areas. The analysis is based on the change of the wrong cognitive schemas of the individual that affect different areas of their everyday life. Through the familiarization with the approach, the reader experiences and learns a functional manner of relating with their body and environment changing their dysfunctional behavior concerned with many split cognitive structures that are interrelated with the wrong cognitive schemas. Approach associates the way that logic and cerebrum’s functions are used globally. Analyzes how through the association of knowledge in sciences and in all the possible domains that human thought utilizes logic, it can be proved (with the multidisciplinary and the transdisciplinary approach) a conscious universal psychotherapeutic logic. The therapy of cognitive mind structures becomes possible with the reunion of knowledge and the union of logic in many fields. The most important are the fields of science, psychology, multiple intelligence, cultural anthropology, art-art therapy, aesthetics, narrative, metaphysics, philosophy, history, social sciences, humanism, politics, sociology, economics, and ecology. The reader has the opportunity to get familiarized with the evolution of many of their brain structures, parts, and modules that they use unconsciously every day and learn through a safe and very interesting manner how they can make them function in a way that will promote their every day adaption in the social environment. Additionally, it is facilitated the growth of new nerve cells that are more interconnected through new dendrites. This assists the development of an advanced firing function and the acquisition of new algorithms that support healthier networks where atrophy has affected structures and the electrophysiological dynamics in many of the patterns of the body. In the book are included theoretical doctrines from psychiatry, psychoanalysis, modern psychotherapeutic modalities, cognitive behavior therapy, neuroscience, art therapy, and gestalt psychotherapy. It is a thorough clinical study that involves the existential approach in psychotherapy and philosophy, the complete Jungian thought from the theory of archetypes to the essays for a science of mythology, the Lacanic idea of the language as a symbolic system, and finally the psychopathology and the psychotic signs of “Whole” human, as they manifest in the structures of the external world. Similar philosophical and psychoanalytic explanations can be found on Kristeva’s psychoanalytic structuralism as it is applied in the fields of language, philosophy, religions, art, politics and literature, and to the semiotic investigations of Umberto Eco that merge the scientific study with philosophy, literature, and novels, making an exceptional contribution in the humanities. Associating terminology from the fields of robotics and computational disciplines, and utilizing interdisciplinary knowledge from geometry, astrophysics, computational linguistics/neuroscience, information theory, neurophilosophy, medicine, psychopharmacology, ethology, cognitive archaeology, and quantum mechanics, it is interpreted the role of all of them in brain evolution. This is a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach of mind with which can be accessible, the information by the macrocosm and microcosm of human. From the view of the Whole, we can associate and reunite the split mind from the fragmentation. Decoding the logic from many fields, we can refind it united in all of them and use it as a protocol and tool for computation and communication. With this approach and using the appropriate methodology from cognitive science, we can conclude in the union of knowledge, as analyzed in the first volume of the series. This is the revolutionary role of an approach of high quality and impact that also covers the above-mentioned topics dealing with the transdisciplinary perspective. It exceeds the usual limits of reference incorporating scientific literature by all the possible fields approached from human cognition and intelligence, removing the barriers of the dichotomized learning established by the introjection of knowledge. With this book, the writer stimulating the receptors of the reader tries to increase the attention, cognizance, awareness, and realization about the unconscious human actions that shape this world. That way, the reader reaches an integrated systemic analysis of the phenomena in their field and becomes aware that their life is determined by the intentional human decision that organizes the information in all the parts and areas of human expression in space and time. In the process of healing cognition and approaching human’s entirety, the potential to understand the influence of human thought in the social environment is necessary. Political philosophy, feminism, materialism, and many other movements played a serious role in the real, fantastic, and symbolic structuring of society. The filtering of social cognition, language, semiotics, and behavior are different due to the unique social, historical, and cultural conditions. Ecological, humanistic, and person-centered theories, like Bateson’s double bind theory and Roger’s person-centered approach, supported many aspects of the social context of motivation. Structuralist approaches like those of R.d Laing, Thomas Szasz, or Françoise Dolto interpreted the effect of social structuring in language and cognition. The book and the approach have been designed after many years of thoughtful consideration reaching a book form and structure with many interrelated parts that are open to the dialogue and can be accessed from a broad audience according to every person’s distinguished personality, special characteristics (age, sex, beliefs, sexual orientation, race, education, financial status), and intentional behavior as unique persons in this world. Following the methodology of popular science and self-help books, it covers an extraordinary number of issues. Questions and problems that arise during the process of human adaption in life answered in a fascinating and pleasant manner. Besides, the approach satisfies queries that are crucial for the psychological maturity and the existential placement of humans of all the ages as to significant events in their life.

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The purpose of the “Colors of the Sunrise” is to cover an analysis of the multicultural and multidimensional experience and expression of human, in general, addressed to a global audience of different social and educational status. In an era that humans of 7 continents from totally different backgrounds are so closely related, most of the people called to find a mutual code of understanding and communication based on logic. This approach is of utmost importance and is revolutionary for the universal human thought as it reveals a method based on the simple logic that every individual can utilize staying connected everywhere and in every case with all the levels of their inner and outer experience in life. This manner rests on a cognitive metaprogram of strong influence for many of the sciences and theories described in this approach. It is a program (using a term employed with the same meaning in artificial intelligence/robotics, cognitive science, cognitive psychology, cognitive oriented psychotherapeutic approaches) of chief importance today that it also applies to the intersection of research in Artificial Intelligence and psychotherapy. The solution of a cognitive metaprogram reveals the way that an individual may follow staying connected with the logic structures and the existing data (information of perception) in the structures of the inner and outer world, regardless of the space and time of practice. Using the associative method in the senses to approach the perception of stimuli through human or robot receptors, is attained a connection with the data of the external world, obtaining a higher level of functioning into all the brain and bodily functions, and the psychotherapeutic logic of the Whole human. A.I Psychotherapy becomes possible diving deep into the academic knowledge provided by a wide range of subjects from computer engineering and cognitive science to explain in detail the practical and theoretical use of its model. The topics analyzed have to do with the role of the cognitive architectures like SOAR and ACT in expanding mind’s potential, the use of many programming languages to analyze cognition, the analysis of the points regarding the Chinese room and Consciousness, and finally the utilization of theories by physics in the A.I Psychotherapy approach. It is delineated the full methodology of the first complete A.I psychotherapy model internationally, and how to build hardware and software intelligent models that apply in robotic systems according to the Strong A.I theory. The model’s implementation derives from knowledge by A.I, and cognitive psychology, and refers to the design of the intelligence defining the proper computational tools and strategies for manipulating the data; it is explained the role of mathematical tools and algorithms in interdisciplinary brain research. In addition, are provided examples from the reasoning process as it has been applied in microcomputers, machines, and intelligent technologies, considering the design and engineering of electronic and digital systems and their compliance with A.I Psychotherapy and its purpose. In the entire process, the studies conducted by many Cognitive scientists like Haugeland, Clark, Boden, Fodor, presented again to enlighten how the Philosophy of science, and Philosophy of mind, merges with the Philosophy of psychology, and the Epistemology to provide the methodological framework that the entire approach built upon. Along the same line, it is made parallelism with the modeling in human brains employing the electrophysiological theory of neuroscience. Besides it is given a detailed reference on how the A.I Psychotherapy model applies for the expansion and evolution of structures affected by psychopathology and the treatment by disorders of cognition and brain. This book is addressed to the academic and greater public covering scientific topics of high interest (trends in neuroscience, cognitive science, psychotherapy, philosophy) with language that can become easily understood. Nowadays, globally all the reputed universities create programs in cognitive science conducting advanced scientific multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research supported by the participation of professors from all the graduate fields. However, the researchers that have original experience in the domain and called cognitive scientists are primarily those with background and combination of degrees in psychology, social sciences, and computer engineering. The entire series of books focus on a clinical approach that presents the latest clinical and scientific research updated from recent academic investigations in the U.S. It is an interpretation that can make a broad audience feel safe and trust the approach’s experienced counseling. Extended analysis is conducted concerning the role of the cognitive systems, semiotics, neuronal activity, and the spatiotemporal continuity of the human mind, body, and brain. It is supported the importance of superstring theory, molecular biology, robotics, discrete math, and algebra, along with defining the concept of intelligence as an effect of the evolution of democracy, mechanics, and economics. Finally, are explained topics and offered an analysis related to the general aim of the book and many issues referred at the intersection of A.I and Cognitive Science like knowledge representation (trees, semantic nets, ontologies), the extended mind, the axiomatic thought, the gestalt forms, and the transference of energy in different types of networks. An outline and reference are made regarding the explanation of the mental phenomena by therapists, and the contribution of humanities, the theory of everything, and social theories. Furthermore are reported details about the application of A.I Psychotherapy in the human informational system, and the informational system of robots and machines (also how it is embedded in the study of the human brain, body, and how it works to the benefit of therapy). During the reading, it is specified through scientific study fundamental details regarding the simulations of human therapists, as well as how to model the human brain and develop intelligent machines according to the A.I Psychotherapy model and the research in human and artificial consciousness. Additionally, it is mentioned the revolution initiated by fields like nanotechnology, computational astrophysics, neuroinformatics, A-life, and their role in this study. It is explored how technologies like ELIZA, the first robot psychotherapist, have been designed according to arguments arisen by the research in human expression. The interpretation offered takes into account the DSM diagnosis, psychopharmacology, and is employed terminology used by great psychoanalysts. The reader is informed about the modalities of therapies preferred in the U.S (like Virtual Reality Therapy, EMDR, Neurofeedback), and it is determined how the separation of body and intellect drives to wrong conclusions and a Cartesian dichotomy. Key points communicated are a brief historical overview of intelligence and a reference on how the theory of influential modern fields like this of Machine learning, Robot-Machine vision, Neurophilosophy, Natural Language Processing, Computational theories, and classic subjects in C.S study, like physicalism, and functionalism, are related to the approach and integrate into A.I Psychotherapy model. It is also included explanations based on terminology from philosophical approaches as they have been formulated during different ages and how this works to the benefit of the A.I approach. It is evaluated with scientific proofs how, through the unity of science, epistemology, and discoveries like those of Wittgenstein, Turing, and Von Neumann approached the connection of cognitive structures. Besides, it is included an extensive description of the etymological relation of many terms with Structuralism and the philosophical thought of thinkers like Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida, and Popper. Using examples by biology, cosmology, and archaeology, it is shown the link of today’s thought with the evolved thought in the history, and the history of ideas, commenting about the logical schemata that support the evolution of the brain to today. Employing a complete and integrated analysis of cerebrum functions, brain anatomy, and referred in several processes engaged like the role of biochemical activity and the levels of organization of human expression, it is explained subjects, like the evaluation of person’s cognitive function, the influence of genetics and the plasticity process. In addition, following a psychosomatic interpretation, it is communicated the association with the function of vital organs like lungs and heart, and offered an explanation of the psychopathology considering the medicine, the neuroscience of emotion, an existential approach to DSM, and the Cognitive Science theory. Concluding about the importance of this study it would be useful to note that through an examination of many disorders based on the philosophical and existential standpoint, approached therapeutic results that have direct effects in cognition, providing guidance on how to manipulate the behavior, and human passions in a functional manner.

Anthony Skarvelakis

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