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How We Got to be Human - Subjective Minds with Objective Bodies (Hardcover)
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How We Got to be Human - Subjective Minds with Objective Bodies (Hardcover)
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This book is about what science frequently dodges or even denies:
subjective life as experienced by animals as well as humans. Mixing
what is known from science with some novel ideas, science writer
William Libaw provides a provocative and stimulating thesis on the
origins and evolution of consciousness.
Among the intriguing ideas presented are the following: For the
earliest animals that had it, subjective experience itself had
Darwinian adaptiveness in a rapidly changing environment; the use
of gestures and deception among apes and some birds suggests
conscious concepts in their mental activity; complete spoken
language came first from the mouths of a group of children who
inherited the previously unused genetic language capability; and
human males have retained the animal rutting instinct and amplified
it with conceptual prurience, which leads them to eroticize
females, and sometimes pressure them to have sex.
As the subjective world of any other creature cannot be observed
directly by any of us, this book plays detective to deduce from
gestures, deceptive behavior, and language some of the concepts
that play a key role in ape and human minds.How We Got to Be Human
is an interesting and original synthesis of a great deal of
evidence and ideas about the origins and nature of our subjective
minds.
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