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The Patterning Instinct - A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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The Patterning Instinct - A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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Loot Price R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award! This fresh perspective on
crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that
cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a
glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early
hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional
Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trail-blazers of the
Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern
consumer society.Taking the reader on an archaeological exploration
of the mind, the author, an entrepreneur and sustainability leader,
uses recent findings in cognitive science and systems theory to
reveal the hidden layers of values that form today's cultural
norms. Uprooting the tired cliches of the science-religion debate,
he shows how medieval Christian rationalism acted as an incubator
for scientific thought, which in turn shaped our modern vision of
the conquest of nature. The author probes our current crisis of
unsustainability and argues that it is not an inevitable result of
human nature, but is culturally driven: a product of particular
mental patterns that could conceivably be reshaped. By shining a
light on our possible futures, the book foresees a coming struggle
between two contrasting views of humanity: one driving to a
technological endgame of artificially enhanced humans, the other
enabling a sustainable future arising from our intrinsic
connectedness with each other and the natural world. This struggle,
it concludes, is one in which each of us will play a role through
the meaning we choose to forge from the lives we lead.
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