From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds - Softcover

Dennett, Daniel C.

 
9780393355505: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393355500 ISBN 13: 9780393355505
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?

In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don't just perceive and react, they create and comprehend.

An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel C. Dennett (1942-2024) was University Professor Emeritus at Tufts University and the author of numerous books, including Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Breaking the Spell, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Consciousness Explained.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393355500
ISBN 13 
9780393355505
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Anzahl der Seiten
477
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