Stover and Erdmann deal with the crises confronting today's
world and argue that solutions will come not from new technology
nor in retreating to an idealized agrarian past, but by overhauling
the beliefs that structure society. They link the dilemmas facing
civilization to a fundamental rift running through society--one
between religion and the humanities, rooted in subjective
experience, and science, which emphasizes objective knowledge. They
suggest a promising way of closing this rift found in the work of
Nobel Laureate and neuroscientist Roger W. Sperry.
They examine Sperry's lifework, including his famous split-
brain research and show how it led him to propose a theory of
consciousness that challenged science's dismissal of subjective
experience as irrelevant. By seeing consciousness as an emergent,
causal property of brain function, Sperry reinstated subjective
experience into the scientific worldview, laid the foundation for
the cognitive revolution that has since swept through psychology,
and created a means by which science can help create ethical
systems better able to deal with today's challenges. Stover and
Erdmann conclude by looking at ways in which others have built upon
Sperry's ideas, and they hold out the hope that, with the creation
of belief systems more compatible with science, a way out of
humanity's current troubles may indeed be found. The result is an
excursion through a world of exciting ideas, and a book sure to
absorb anyone interested in the fate of our species--and how that
fate might be influenced for the better. Students, researchers,
scholars, and concerned citizens particularly interested in
cognitive psychology, science and society, and futures studies will
find the book intriguing.
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