How We Got to Be Human: Subjective Minds

ISBN-13: 9781573928137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 378 str.

William H. Libaw

Opis

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. As the subjective world of any other creature cannot be observed directly by any of us, Libaw plays detective to deduce from gestures, deceptive behavior, and language some of the concepts that play a key role in ape and human minds. The result is an interesting and original synthesis of a great deal of evidence and ideas about the origins and nature of our subjective minds.