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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In Dreaming Souls, Owen Flanagan provides both an accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming. Flanagan argues that while sleep has a clear biological function and adaptive value, dreams are merely side effects, 'free-riders', irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But dreams are hardly unimportant. Indeed, Flanagan argues that dreams are self-expressive, the result of our need to find or create meaning, even when we are sleeping.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement.-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a complex adaptive system, a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain. These are theories as important as they are radical. Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research and development teams a full 3.5 billion years ago. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic age, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality.Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution. It is a grand vision, says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement.-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom-one of today's preeminent thinkers-offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a complex adaptive system, a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain. These are theories as important as they are radical. Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom takes us on a spellbinding journey back to the big bang to let us see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research and development teams a full 3.5 billion years ago. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic age, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This fascinating tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality.Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution. It is a grand vision, says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that transforms our very view of who we are and why.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. When John Mauchly and Presper Eckert developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania during World War I, their intention was simply to aid artillerymen in aiming their guns. Since then, in the past fifty years, ENIAC and its offspring have utterly changed the way we go about both business and science. Along with the transistor, the computer has brought about transformation on a scale unmatched since the industrial revolution. In a lively and informative account, Joel Shurkin introduces us to the people and discoveries that made the computer possible - from the first models to the creation of the chip and beyond. Here is the first full story of an invention that changed the world.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Serving as a guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this work shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. This work introduces the theory of 'group selection'. The author argues that throughout the history of life, communication and cooperation between groups has been at least as important as the fierce individual competition Darwin emphasized.

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Humans are moral creatures. Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved?In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that morality has played in human evolution. They explore the moral traits that humans share with chimpanzees; how a more complex moral mind enabled Homo sapiens to arise and out-compete other human species; and the place of morality alongside historic revolutions in technology and social organization. Throughout the book, Kumar and Campbell argue that morality co-evolved with intelligence and complex sociality. Morality prevents societal collapse and enables complex knowledge.After unearthing the ancient origins of human morality, Kumar and Campbell use evolutionary theory to deliver profound insights about how to advance moral progress and resist moral regress, such as reducing animal suffering on industrial farms; capitalizing on the recent revolution in gay rights to foster a nascent revolution in transgender rights; opposing intersectional inequality that impacts women and people of color in lower socioeconomic classes; and addressing major problems of global inequality, especially impending crises of injustice caused by anthropogenic climate change. Understanding how we evolved - and how we continue to evolve - can help us become a better ape. …

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Wie das Gehirn denkt] . bietet ein ausgezeichnetes Konzentrat von Calvins] Schl sselkonzepten. Er geh rt zu jener raren Sorte von Wissenschaftlern, welche die komplexen Inhalte ihres Fachgebiets in die Sprache von Laien bersetzen k nnen, und er ist dabei einer der besten . Calvin zieht den Leser mit seiner lyrischen und phantasievollen Darstellung unweigerlich in seine Welt des neuronalen Darwinismus und weckt den Appetit auf mehr.Eine wertvolle Einf hrung in die Bewu tseinsdebatte -- ein kluges, mitrei endes Buch. Es verlangt keine Vorkenntnisse und kennt keine Zur ckhaltung.Calvin sprudelt ber vor Ideen, und dies ist ein provozierendes und anregendes Buch. Zeitskala sehr viel k rzer. Der Darwinsche Wettstreit im Gehirn findet zun chst im Un- oder Unterbewussten statt, und erst wenn eines der eingereichten Ideenfragmente sich der internen Qualit tspr fung und Optimierung erfolgreich unterzogen hat, kommt uns der Gedanke. Calvins Modell der Verschaltung und Funktionsweise des Gehirns geht von einer Art neuronalem S ngertreffen aus, in dem rivalisierende Ch re sich gegenseitig zu bertreffen und den anderen ihre Melodie aufzuzwingen versuchen. Die S nger sind die Nervenzellen, die jeweils zu mehreren zu einem Chor zusammentreten, und die Melodien, die schlie lich die Oberhand gewinnen, sind die Gedanken, die wir denken, oder die Dinge, die wir sagen. Wie in der Evolution des Lebens k nnen also auch in unserem Gehirn aus einfachen Urspr ngen hochkomplexe Ordnungsmuster entstehen. Wird das R tsel des Bewusstseins so letztlich aufzukl ren sein? Nach Calvins fester berzeugung ist es ein Irrglauben zu denken -- so wie es die Bewusstseinsphysiker tun --, man k nne vom Kellergeschoss der Quantenmechanik mit einem Sprung zum Penthouse des Bewusstseins gelangen. Die Stockwerke dazwischen -- chemische Bindungen, Biochemie, Membranen, Synapsen, Nervenzellen -- m ssen in eine vollst ndige Erkl rung h herer geistiger Leistungen einbezogen werden. Calvins ungew hnliche und unterhaltsame F hrung durch die Erkenntnisse der modernen Hirnforschung endet mit einem Blick in die Zukunft. Die Evolution der Intelligenz ist n mlich nicht beendet. Aber sie scheint nun eine nichtbiologische Richtung zu nehmen: An die Seite der nat rlichen Intelligenz tritt die k nstliche, und der Bau wirklich intelligenter Maschinen ist f r Calvin nur eine Frage der Zeit. Treten wir in eine neue Phase des Wettr stens ein, diesmal von menschlicher gegen maschinelle Intelligenz.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Wie das Gehirn denkt] . bietet ein ausgezeichnetes Konzentrat von Calvins] Schl sselkonzepten. Er geh rt zu jener raren Sorte von Wissenschaftlern, welche die komplexen Inhalte ihres Fachgebiets in die Sprache von Laien bersetzen k nnen, und er ist dabei einer der besten . Calvin zieht den Leser mit seiner lyrischen und phantasievollen Darstellung unweigerlich in seine Welt des neuronalen Darwinismus und weckt den Appetit auf mehr.Eine wertvolle Einf hrung in die Bewu tseinsdebatte -- ein kluges, mitrei endes Buch. Es verlangt keine Vorkenntnisse und kennt keine Zur ckhaltung.Calvin sprudelt ber vor Ideen, und dies ist ein provozierendes und anregendes Buch. Zeitskala sehr viel k rzer. Der Darwinsche Wettstreit im Gehirn findet zun chst im Un- oder Unterbewussten statt, und erst wenn eines der eingereichten Ideenfragmente sich der internen Qualit tspr fung und Optimierung erfolgreich unterzogen hat, kommt uns der Gedanke. Calvins Modell der Verschaltung und Funktionsweise des Gehirns geht von einer Art neuronalem S ngertreffen aus, in dem rivalisierende Ch re sich gegenseitig zu bertreffen und den anderen ihre Melodie aufzuzwingen versuchen. Die S nger sind die Nervenzellen, die jeweils zu mehreren zu einem Chor zusammentreten, und die Melodien, die schlie lich die Oberhand gewinnen, sind die Gedanken, die wir denken, oder die Dinge, die wir sagen. Wie in der Evolution des Lebens k nnen also auch in unserem Gehirn aus einfachen Urspr ngen hochkomplexe Ordnungsmuster entstehen. Wird das R tsel des Bewusstseins so letztlich aufzukl ren sein? Nach Calvins fester berzeugung ist es ein Irrglauben zu denken -- so wie es die Bewusstseinsphysiker tun --, man k nne vom Kellergeschoss der Quantenmechanik mit einem Sprung zum Penthouse des Bewusstseins gelangen. Die Stockwerke dazwischen -- chemische Bindungen, Biochemie, Membranen, Synapsen, Nervenzellen -- m ssen in eine vollst ndige Erkl rung h herer geistiger Leistungen einbezogen werden. Calvins ungew hnliche und unterhaltsame F hrung durch die Erkenntnisse der modernen Hirnforschung endet mit einem Blick in die Zukunft. Die Evolution der Intelligenz ist n mlich nicht beendet. Aber sie scheint nun eine nichtbiologische Richtung zu nehmen: An die Seite der nat rlichen Intelligenz tritt die k nstliche, und der Bau wirklich intelligenter Maschinen ist f r Calvin nur eine Frage der Zeit. Treten wir in eine neue Phase des Wettr stens ein, diesmal von menschlicher gegen maschinelle Intelligenz. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Drawing on his theory of the origins of the modern mind, Merlin Donald's thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively human modes of awareness. Donald proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of interweaving a supercomplex form of matter (the brain) with an invisible symbolic web (culture) to form a distributed cognitive network. This hybrid mind, Donald suggests, is our main evolutionary advantage, for it allowed humanity as a species to break free of the limitations of the mammalian brain.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while stillholding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith? Here are stories from a community of people who love Jesus and honor the authority of the Bible, but whoalso agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it. Among the contributors are Scientists such as Francis Collins Deborah Haarsma Denis Lamoureux Pastors such as John Ortberg Ken Fong Laura Truax Biblical scholars such as N. T. Wright Scot McKnight Tremper Longman III Theologians and philosophers such as James K. A. Smith Amos Yong Oliver Crisp BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity invite us to see the harmony between the sciences and biblical faith on issues including cosmology, biology, paleontology, evolution, humanorigins, the environment, and more.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, a book that offers the most convincing--and radical--explanation for how and why the human mind evolved. Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument on Darwin' s theory of sexual selection, which until now has played second fiddle to Darwin' s theory of natural selection, and draws on ideas and research from a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, history, and pop culture. Witty, powerfully argued, and continually thought-provoking, The Mating Mind is a landmark in our understanding of our own species.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: .case of Jacob Behmen there was the initial earnestness of character which belongs to the class of men of whom this book treats. b. There was (almost certainly), though we are not told of it in so many words, the subjective light. c. There was extraordinary intellectual illumination. d. And equal moral elevation. e. There was the sense of immortality. f. Loss of the fear of death (if he ever had it, as is likely, since he seems to have been quite an ordinary boy and young man). g. There was the suddenness, the instantaneousness, of the awakening of the new life. At the time of his illumination he was at the typical age--namely, thirty-five years. Chapter 11. William Blake. Born 1757; died 1827. If Blake had Cosmic Consciousness the words written above as to the vastly greater scope and variety of this than of self consciousness will receive from his case illustration. The few short extracts from his writings, below quoted, almost prove that he had the Cosmic Sense, which he called Imaginative Vision 95: 166, and he must have attained to it within a very few years after reaching the thirtieth of his age. There do not appear to be any details extant of his entrance into it, but his writings may fairly be allowed to prove the fact of possession. I. W. M. Rossetti, in the Prefatory Memoir to The Poetical Works of William Blake 52, gives an admirable sketch of Blake's actual life and apparently a fair estimate of his abilities and defects. The following extracts therefrom will materially assist us in the inquiry now before us; that is: Had Blake Cosmic Consciousness? The difficulty of Blake's biographers, subsequent to 1863, the date of Mr. Gilchrist's book, is of a different kind altogether. It is the.…