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Mind Shift - How culture transformed the human brain (Hardcover)
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Mind Shift - How culture transformed the human brain (Hardcover)
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John Parrington argues that social interaction and culture have
deeply shaped the exceptional nature of human consciousness. The
mental capacities of the human mind far outstrip those of other
animals. Our imaginations and creativity have produced art, music,
and literature; built bridges and cathedrals; enabled us to probe
distant galaxies, and to ponder the meaning of our existence. When
our minds become disordered, they can also take us to the depths of
despair. What makes the human brain unique, and able to generate
such a rich mental life? In this book, John Parrington draws on the
latest research on the human brain to show how it differs
strikingly from those of other animals in its structure and
function at a molecular and cellular level. And he argues that this
'shift', enlarging the brain, giving it greater flexibility and
enabling higher functions such as imagination, was driven by tool
use, but especially by the development of one remarkable tool -
language. The complex social interaction brought by language opened
up the possibility of shared conceptual worlds, enriched with
rhythmic sounds, and images that could be drawn on cave walls. This
transformation enabled modern humans to leap rapidly beyond all
other species, and generated an exceptional human consciousness, a
sense of self that arises as a product of our brain biology and the
social interactions we experience. Our minds, even those of
identical twins, are unique because they are the result of this
extraordinarily plastic brain, exquisitely shaped and tuned by the
social and cultural environment in which we grew up and to which we
continue to respond through life. Linking early work by the Russian
psychologist Lev Vygotsky to the findings of modern neuroscience,
Parrington explores how language, culture, and society mediate
brain function, and what this view of the human mind may bring to
our understanding and treatment of mental illness.
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