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El funcionamiento del cerebro y el misterio de la conciencia humana son dos de los asuntos más importantes con los que deben enfrentarse la filosofía y la ciencia de nuestros días, pues afectan a todos los ámbitos de la existencia, desde la inteligencia artificial hasta las promesas de una vida ultraterrena. La mayoría de la gente cree, en uno u otro sentido, en la idea de que la conciencia está por encima y más allá de todo. John Searle, en cambio, sostiene que los estados de conciencia no son otra cosa que avatares del cerebro causados por procesos neurológicos. Y para demostrar su ...

History, achievements and cultural contributions of the well-famed institute since its foundation in 1935 by architects Federico Gomez de Orozco, Rafael Garcia Granados and Luis Mac Gregor as an Art Laboratory, inspired in the one in the University of Seville of Spain.

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and contemporary art; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This beautifully produced book provides a collection that will appeal to all art lovers.

Que pensaba Roberto Rossellini sobre el cine, el arte al que dedico practicamente toda su vida? Cuales eran sus opiniones sobre sus propias peliculas y sobre el futuro de un lenguaje que el contribuyo enormemente a renovar? La mayor parte de los textos que componen este libro corresponden al dialogo casi ininterrumpido que Rossellini mantuvo con los redactores de Cahiers du cinema en los anos cincuenta y sesenta. Jacques Rivette, FranC'ois Truffaut o Eric Rohmer, entre otros, lo habian convertido en uno de sus "maestros," y lo habian hecho basandose no en su condicion de "padre del...

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...