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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think - How Humans Learned to See the Future--and Shape It (Hardcover)
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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think - How Humans Learned to See the Future--and Shape It (Hardcover)
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Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the
other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age
beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? In Stories, Dice, and Rocks That
Think, Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our
ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the
perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in.
Envisioning human history as the development of a societal
superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape
enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and
predict - and eventually master - the future. Thoughtful, witty,
and compulsively readable, Reese unravels our history as an
intelligent species in three acts: Act I: Ancient humans undergo
"the awakening," developing the cognitive ability to mentally
time-travel using language Act II: In 17th century France, the
mathematical framework known as 'probability theory' is born - a
science for seeing into the future that we used to build the modern
world Act III: Beginning with the invention of the computer chip,
humanity creates machines to gaze into the future with even more
precision, overcoming the limits of our brains A fresh new look at
the history and destiny of humanity, readers will come away from
Stories, Dice, and Rocks that Think with a new understanding of
what they are-not just another animal, but a creature with a
mastery of time itself.
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