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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel Dennett
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- Condition
- Edition
- 1
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Type
- Book
- Publication Name
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- ISBN
- 9780393242072
- Book Title
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back : the Evolution of Minds
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7in
- Genre
- Religion, Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- Mind & Body, Atheism, Life Sciences / Evolution
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 29.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusion and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings of proteins, neurons, and DNA is deeper than ever before, the matter of how our minds came to be has largely remained a mystery. That is now changing, says Daniel C. Dennett. In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his most comprehensive exploration of evolutionary thinking yet, he builds on ideas from computer science and biology to show how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett's legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought. In his inimitable style--laced with wit and arresting thought experiments--Dennett explains that a crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. Competition among memes--a form of natural selection--produced thinking tools so well-designed that they gave us the power to design our own memes. The result, a mind that not only perceives and controls but can create and comprehend, was thus largely shaped by the process of cultural evolution. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain anyone eager to make sense of how the mind works and how it came about.
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Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393242072
ISBN-13
9780393242072
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224465085
Product Key Features
Book Title
From Bacteria to Bach and Back : the Evolution of Minds
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mind & Body, Atheism, Life Sciences / Evolution
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Religion, Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
29.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
B105.C477d445 2017
Reviews
A supremely enjoyable,intoxicating work, tying together 50 years of thinking about where minds comefrom and how they work. . . . Dennett has earned his reputation as one oftoday's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literatephilosophers, as this subtle, clever book shows . . . . immensely instructiveand pleasurable., If you have not encountered [Dennett's] work, you surelyshould . . . very few contemporary thinkers have supplied us with so many 'thinkingtools.' . . . . Dennett's book is astonishingly rich and will introduce you tomost of the key ideas in the terrain he strides energetically across., In From Bacteria toBach and Back, his eighteenth book (thirteenth as sole author), Dennettpresents a valuable and typically lucid synthesis of his worldview . . . .Dennett is always good company . . . . he writes with wit and elegance . . . . distinctive., Illuminating and insightful. . . . [Dennett] makes a convincing case, based on a rapidly growing body of experimental evidence, that a materialist theory of mind is within reach. . . . His ideas demand serious consideration.
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-046790
Dewey Decimal
128.2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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