Journey of the Mind

How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

Journey of the Mind
Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
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Hardback
h235 x 156mm - 432pg
5 Apr 2022 US
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9781324006572
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Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion-beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions. Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos. The journey begins three billion years ago with the emergence of the simplest possible mind, a nanoscopic archeon, then ascends through amoebas, worms, frogs, birds, monkeys, and AI, examining successively smarter ways of thinking. The authors explain the mathematical principles generating conscious experience and show how these principles led cities and democratic nations to develop new forms of consciousness-the self-aware "superminds. " Journey of the Mind concludes by contemplating a higher stage of consciousness already emerging-and the ultimate fate of all minds in the universe.
Journey of the Mind explains a lot about the brain and its evolution in plain, accessible language without the technical abbreviations that make most neuroscience reading so unpleasant. . . . A daring book and an absorbing read. --Peter Sterling, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Every page of Journey of the Mind is packed with fascinating insight. This is a brilliant book that will change the way you think about thinking. --David Epstein, author of Range and The Sports Gene What Sapiens did for our understanding of the evolution of the human race, Journey of The Mind has done for the evolution of complex thought and consciousness itself. --Annie Duke, author of How to Decide
Ogi Ogas PhD, was a research fellow at the Harvard School of Education. He coauthored Dark Horse and Shrinks. He lives in Boston. Sai Gaddam PhD, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Adaptive System at Boston University. He coauthored A Billion Wicked Thoughts. He lives in Mumbai.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781324006572
Published: 5 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 432

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