Familiarization with the content of “The Colors of the Sunrise” through many Best Sellers and other Famous books
Famous Books that it is possible to accompany the reading of “The Colors of the Sunrise” reaching to a stronger therapeutic result and better cognitive foundations.
The series of books “The Psychotherapy of “Whole,” Aesthetics, Philosophy, Humanism, and Cognitive science” is a series of maximum and significant impact today as they are addressed to a large audience. The successful integration in the market of applications that simulate a psychotherapist, like the Woebot https://chatbotsmagazine.com/woebot-worlds-first-mental-health-chatbot-gets-8-million-in-funding-3369a1e7ba9f, a therapy Chabot for healing depression that received a fund of $8 million to gain access to mental health worldwide, and the fact that Harvard and MIT took $27M to research Artificial Intelligence from humanities perspective https://observer.com/2017/01/harvard-mit-get-27m-to-research-artificial-intelligence-from-humanities-perspective/, are indicative of the need and the value of a series of books that will present an integrated approach, using many different psychotherapeutic modalities, and A.I.
The funding of research in similar domains is supported by incredible amounts due to the extreme difficulty of having acquired a background in psychotherapy, arts, and sciences (more specifically in A.I) at the same time. Comparable research in the past has proven to be of primary economic importance, and high impact considering the enthusiasm manifested from the academic audience.
American and British English-speaking people all over the world are interested in books that approach the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, psychotherapy, and philosophy. The utilization of color and digital photography and the fact that the text supports music creating an atmosphere during the reading without undervaluing the scientific methodology is also very influential.
Many of the topics analyzed in the book lay close to the foundations of many of the most exciting trends today, found in books included in the popular categories of the market. In the past, series of books referred to the concepts analyzed in “The Colors of the Sunrise” has been proved to be of significant value, and especially those written by writers with a background in Science and Psychology and concern the merge of Science, Robotics/A.I, Psychology, and Physics.
Some of the most popular titles of popular science books available on the Web are written by Cognitive scientists like Steven Pinker and Douglas R. Hofstadter (see: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid-Covers the relation of art, science, and A.I). At the best-sellers included books like The Brain that Change Itself by Norman Doidge an edition of a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst for the neuroplasticity of the brain, and the Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, which discusses and introduces the concept of A. I and its wider role in society.
Reviewing the group of best-sellers and also top-rated books we can see the book A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking that gives an interpretation of human experience lending from cosmology, mechanics, physics, the theories about space and time, and the history of philosophy. With a quick review, we conclude that there is strong interest nowadays in books that give answers to existential questions examined by science. A book like “The Colors of the Sunrise” covers many of the above subjects staying favorable to a scientific strategy providing the ground for an easy apprehension by the public and a mass audience.
In the following lines are provided the titles of more books that are included in the category of self-help books. The review is based on the status of books, a number of similarities that have to do with the agreement in style, the similarity in the research, and the similarity of the professional background of the writers. Some of them are the books of Irvin Yalom and books referred to self-help consultation like the book You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay.
“The Colors of the Sunrise” and the books of Yalom incorporate methods from existential-group therapy, philosophy, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, along with theory and references from multicultural psychotherapy, giving a robust psychotherapeutic interpretation that is very interesting for a big audience. Almost similar methods also follow books like this of Louise L. Hay focused on the issue of body healing (a vital and central theme in “The Colors of the Sunrise”). Louise Hay brings a list of diseases related to psychological etiology and symptoms interrelated with the hysteric interpretations of Freud or the Somatoform and Psychosomatic Disorders at DSM. Human experience approached from the scope of Psychiatry, Mind-Body related modalities, and Medicine.
In the popular self-help group, we also see books that convey similar meaning and inspire a strong influence regarding the enhancement of psychological capabilities considering the existence as a fundamental subject. The classic book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is focused on the same existential position in psychotherapy remaining a best-seller for many years. Of great interest are also books based on the theoretical principle about the psychotherapeutic meaning of Now (focused on the principles of mindfulness-based approaches and Gestalt Therapy).
I am referring to these books for the reason that they have many similarities with the clinical research and the therapeutic techniques used in the projects presented within “The Colors of the Sunrise.” Another one is the Emotional Intelligence of Daniel Goleman. This book follows the structure that “The Colors of the Sunrise” follows (introduces research of high standards accompanied by a simplicity in the way that the topics are conveyed to the public). The innovation is that it presents a scientific analysis of the perceptual and psychological experience to the public, offering a new scientific point of view, established by the background of a mental health professional (e.g., psychologist, social worker, psychiatrist) with professional experience, research, and recognized work.
Titles that cover similar subjects with those examined in “The Colors of the Sunrise”
1.Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: Douglas R. Hofstadter
The research of Douglas R. Hofstadter and the analysis that he conducts in his books are identical with the way that mind and cognition are explored through “The Colors of the Sunrise.” He is a Cognitive scientist that his books follow almost the same form, creating associations among many different disciplines based on logic and the theory of the well-known logician Gödel. In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, he utilizes methodology by different sciences to present special topics to the public. He is using the science of logic associating knowledge from the Euclidean Mathematical axioms and calculus, computer science/programming, A.I theory, and philosophy. He reaches to an embodied interpretation of the foundations of knowledge investigating the patterns of many fields.
His book is a best seller (winner of the National Βook Αward in Science) https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567 and is still one of the most influential books written in the field of Cognitive Science. The audience interested in this book will be interested also in “The Colors of the Sunrise.” The commons have to do with the structure assisting a reader from a non-scientific background to gain an understanding of many issues according to the interdisciplinary perspective. Additionally, the readers guided by the thoughtful investigations of Cognitive Sciences satisfy their curiosity through exciting subjects.
What distinguishes both books by others of the same class and those addressed to the same audience, is that the biggest rate of the existing titles in the market includes advanced scientific terminology without illuminating the given argumentation to be widely comprehensible; this is a fact that is successfully attained by “The Colors of the Sunrise.”
2. Frames of mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences: Howard Gardner.
The Frames of mind has presented a new approach that covers many of the issues that “The Colors of The Sunrise” also analyzes from an interdisciplinary, multicultural, and global perspective using almost similar bibliography, logic, and methodology to approach the frames of mind, and the human cognitive structures. Due to the language utilized it becomes familiar to a broad audience. People interested in this book are willing to practice with the theoretical understanding to expand their linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and personal potentials, to affect all the sides of their life positively.
The shared characteristic with “The Colors of the Sunrise” is that it presents a new approach incorporating research from AI and psychotherapy, using keywords that are of critical significance for the understanding of human experience, as it is described from many sciences and theories globally. The Colors of the Sunrise incorporates research of equal quality without being a book that presents only an academic study, but a book that can fulfill the needs of the greater audience as it combines the use of art, literature, and sound harmonically supporting the senses and the cerebral function, consulting the reader on how to reach a higher level of functioning in their cognitive structures.
3. How the Mind Works: Steven Pinker
There is a substantial difficulty to transfer the highly intellectual issues of many sciences to the common mind and needs to devote many years and a strong writing effort to achieve this. A popular science book that became a best-seller is that of Steven Pinker that explains in-depth how the mind works, utilizing knowledge from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, biology, anthropology, art, music, and literature.
Due to its special nature, “The Colors of the Sunrise” is possible to be included in the popular science category because it covers a huge gap explaining to the public what cognitive science is, along with engaging the reader with the digital art therapy and the narrative therapy project included in the book. It covers issues focused on the theoretical approach of Cognitive Science to explain many brain mechanisms using the same fields as Pinker’s book. The focus is on the psychotherapeutic result manifested in the cognitive structures after the reading utilizing knowledge from philosophy and art therapy.
4. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Steven Pinker.
It is a New York Times best-seller that speaks about the need for Reason, Humanism, and Science as a tool for Enlightenment today. Using knowledge from precisely the same fields that the series, The Psychotherapy of Whole: Aesthetics, Philosophy, Humanism, and Cognitive Science use (philosophy, psychology, science, humanistic approaches), Pinker concludes that the problem of humanity globally today can be solved with the Enlightenment of Science, Humanism, and Reason. He explains why these values are crucial nowadays for the evolution of humankind, for the cognitive structures, and the psychological balance of individuals that have been distorted from a delusional attachment in negativity.
Books that cover these issues are usually written by cognitive scientists that their survey has expanded enough and it is adequate to transfer the deconstruction as it has been applied in structuralism relating the modern and recent thought in science, with solutions addressed to the reality principle, and the secondary thought (see: Psychoanalysis and Freudian theory). It is not random that books referred to Humanism, Philosophy, and Reason are always books that can cause high impact. They resolve mental blockages and release the individual’s thought to explore a wide range of new opportunities in life, finally transforming the everyday life. Cognitive-oriented psychotherapy considers that these opportunities are blocked from erroneous beliefs and wrong cognitive schemata.
5. Deepak Chopra’s books.
The audience interested in the books of Deepak Chopra will feel excited about the scientific analysis conducted in “The Colors of the Sunrise.” What makes the books of Deepak Chopra so unique is that they utilize knowledge by the human’s “Whole” experience (psychological, biological, material, social, physical). It is employed knowledge from many theories globally, trying to give an interpretation with reference to the healing of the Whole human (mind, body, cerebrum), connecting the inner and outer human perception. The common with the books of Deepak Chopra is that the analysis of the psychological reality is conducted using as a basis the cosmological model of physics, and other sciences, for the construction of new viewpoints, satisfying the educated and intellectual audience, as well as audience of any social status, which wants to advance their potential.
6. Art Therapy-Music Therapy books with focus at the intersection of neuroscience and clinical approaches.
From its original design, the book supports the involvement of the reader with the parts that they consider that are easier for them to get engaged with. The reader, regardless of their background, can read the therapeutic narrative and practice with the Digital Photo Art Therapy project of the book omitting the reading of the rest book. Also, the reader can add the music that they prefer using the proposed music therapy and the art therapy techniques, expanding their intelligence, and resolving many psychological symptoms. Due to this special additional opportunity and modality of reading that is addressed to those that are not interested in the part book of the book that contains scientific research, the book becomes understandable by readers without scientific background or academic knowledge.
Thus, the books are addressed to a broad audience regardless of their background, allowing the reader to get engaged with expressive art therapies by getting involved with the art/music/narrative therapy projects of the book.
7. Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again. Andy Clark
Explains from the standpoint of Cognitive Science and robotics many ideas that are also analyzed in “The Colors of the Sunrise” regards embodiment as a concept in psychotherapy, robotics, and other fields.
8. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett.
This is one more book in the heart of Cognitive Science with precisely the same structure as “The Colors of The Sunrise.” It includes a part with a conversation, approaching with simplicity scientific topics. This is the role of the narrative included in “The Colors of The Sunrise” that familiarizes the reader in a simple manner with a big part of the scientific research included in the other parts.
9.The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Roch.
A book that again focuses on scientific research in Cognitive Science to explain the embodied mind from the scope of Philosophy and Mind-body approaches. The content of this research has many similarities with the research outlined in “The Colors of the Sunrise” regards embodiment.
10. Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea. John Haugeland.
In this exciting book of Haugeland is where human and artificial intelligence are explained with regard to their general use in science. Philosophy is the main tool that Haugeland employs to bring to the wider audience the concepts of intelligence by many academic fields. Geometry, Physics, and Mathematics are interpreted through a historical sketch bridging the thinking in science with the intelligence of computers and machines. Again the dualism of Descartes and the mind-body theory are discussed. Reasoning, computational thinking, formal systems, computer architecture, and GOFAI are explained in more detail to understand the ways that machine intelligence works. Many of the above are also discussed in “The Colors of the Sunrise” using the relevant findings by the academia today establishing the foundations of the A.I Psychotherapy model.
Anthony Skarvelakis
Licensed Social Worker (DipSW, PQ, HASW)
Cognitive Scientist, Author-Researcher (Cognitive Science,Social Science)
Founder A.I Psych Approach
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