Incomplete nature : how mind emerged from matter
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A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.
Terrence W. Deacon je autor, který se zabývá hlubokými otázkami původu lidské mysli a jazyka. Jeho práce prozkoumává fascinující spojení mezi biologií, neurologií a vývojem symbolického myšlení, které definuje lidskou zkušenost. S vědeckou přesností a literárním citem odhaluje složité mechanismy, které nám umožnily stát se jedinečným druhem na Zemi. Jeho psaní nabízí čtenářům poutavý pohled na to, co znamená být člověkem.



A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.
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.