Incomplete nature : how mind emerged from matter
- 604 stránok
- 22 hodin čítania
A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.
Terrence William Deacon Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
24. august 1950
Terrence W. Deacon je autor, ktorý sa ponára do hlbokých otázok o pôvode ľudskej mysle a jazyka. Jeho práca skúma fascinujúce prepojenie medzi biológiou, neurológiou a vývojom symbolického myslenia, ktoré definuje ľudskú skúsenosť. S vedeckou presnosťou a literárnym citom odhaľuje zložité mechanizmy, ktoré nám umožnili stať sa jedinečným druhom na Zemi. Jeho písanie ponúka čitateľom pútavý pohľad na to, čo znamená byť človekom.
Incomplete Nature
- 602 stránok
- 22 hodin čítania
Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.
Human language is one of the most distinctive behavioural adaptations on the planet. Languages evolved in only one species, in only one way, without precedent, and without parallel. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have produced hundreds of thousands of species with brains, and tens of thousands with complex learning abilities. Only one of these has ever wondered about its place in the whole scheme, because only one - through its language - evolved with the ability to do so. This book aims to alter the understanding of what it means to be human: the universe isn't a soulless, blindly spinning clockwork, but instead nascent hear and mind.