This work has two main themes: how ideas about the mind evolved in
science; and how the mind itself evolved in nature. The mind came
into physical science when it was realised, first, that it is the
activity of a physical object, a brain, which makes a mind; and
secondly, that our theories of nature are largely mental
constructions, artificial extensions of an inner model of the world
which we inherited from our distant ancestors. From both of these
perspectives, consciousness is the great enigma. If consciousness
evolved, however, it is in some sense a material thing whatever
else may be said of it. Physics, chemistry, molecular biology,
brain function and evolutionary biology - almost the whole of
science - is involved, and there can be no expert in all these
fields. So the style of the book is simple, almost conversational.
The excitement of the book lies in the fact that the reader is able
to feel close to a scientific theory of consciousness.
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