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The Book of Minds - How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens (Paperback)
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The Book of Minds - How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens (Paperback)
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Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that
we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then
do we even begin to think about 'minds' that are not human? Science
now has plenty to say about the properties of mind. In recent
decades, the mind - both human and otherwise - has been explored by
scientists in fields ranging from zoology to astrobiology, computer
science to neuroscience. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and
where they might be found - including in plants, aliens, and God -
Philip Ball pulls these multidisciplinary pieces together to
explore what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the
universe. In so doing, he offers for the first time a unified way
of thinking about what minds are and what they can do, arguing that
in order to understand our own minds and imagine those of others,
we need to move on from considering the human mind as a standard
against which all others should be measured, and to think about the
'space of possible minds'. By identifying and mapping out
properties of mind without prioritizing the human, Ball sheds new
light on a host of fascinating questions. What moral rights should
we afford animals, and can we understand their thoughts? Should we
worry that AI is going to take over society? If there are
intelligent aliens out there, how could we communicate with them?
Should we? Understanding the space of possible minds also reveals
ways of making advances in understanding some of the most
challenging questions in contemporary science: What is thought?
What is consciousness? And what (if anything) is free will? The
more we learn about the minds of other creatures, from octopuses to
chimpanzees, and to imagine the potential minds of computers and
alien intelligences, the greater the perspective we have on if and
how our own is different. Ball's thrillingly ambitious The Book of
Minds about the nature and existence of minds is more
mind-expanding than we could imagine. In this fascinating panorama
of other minds, we come to better know our own.
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