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  • Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

    How Mind Emerged from Matter

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
    A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory of Everything" that appears to be emerging includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
    "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book ReviewThis revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Neither Ghost nor Machine

    The Emergence and Nature of Selves

    by Jeremy Sherman ...
    If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge? Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not? Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation—that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was somehow breathed into matter—and instead accept that selves are just matter, in aimless mechanistic motion like everything else. But what about life ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Neither Ghost nor Machine

    The Emergence and Nature of Selves

    by Jeremy Sherman ...
    If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge? Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not? Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation—that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was somehow breathed into matter—and instead accept that selves are just matter, in aimless mechanistic motion like everything else. But what about life ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Symbolic Species Evolved

    Edited by Theresa Schilhab, Frederik Stjernfelt, Terrence Deacon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    by Daniel C. Dennett ...
    One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... Read more

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  • Phi

    A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

    by Giulio Tononi ...
    This title is printed in full color throughout.From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of science as well.Galileo’s journey has three parts, each with a different guide. In the ... Read more

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  • The Social Conquest of Earth

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... Read more

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  • Masters of the Planet

    The Search for Our Human Origins

    by Ian Tattersall ...
    Series series MacSci
    50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the ... Read more

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  • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

    An Existential Detective Story

    by Jim Holt ...
    “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page reviewTackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has ... Read more

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  • Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red

    The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

    by Andrew Thompson ...
    Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining & often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this trivia book from a bestselling author.English is filled with interesting phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:• Read between the Lines• Cat Got Your Tongue?• Put a Sock in It• Close, but No Cigar• ... Read more

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  • Gravity's Angels

    by Michael Swanwick ...
    Short stories from the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author. "One of the best science fiction collections I've ever read." — The Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionThough written in the last decades of the twentieth-century, these tales are timeless and prophetic visions created by Michael Swanwick's wide-ranging imagination. Through stories of talking alien beasts, eco-fiction ... Read more

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