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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 ...

Este libro guarda en su interior las imágenes grabadas, cuyos colores jamás serán borradas, por que son huella dejadas en el camino.

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...

Obra que propone una relectura de las neovanguardias en el doble ámbito de las prácticas artísticas europeas y norteamericanas, partiendo del supuesto de que la neovanguardia no tiene por qué convertir lo antiestético en artístico ni lo trasgresor en institucional.

Quality assurance has been a major issue in Higher Education discourse during the past decade. Evaluations, accreditations and assessments have almost become standard procedures within the framework of translation studies. This quest for quality has not only to integrate market needs and new market requirements, but also novel strategies in training - whereby training learners and trainers has to be given equal attention. Translation quality has become a key issue in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication market as well as in the translator education environment. It has to be...