From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —Nature How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind? In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don’t just perceive and react, they create and comprehend. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works. |
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... Turing broke a spell Ontology and the manifest image Automating the elevator The intelligent designers of Oak Ridge and GOFAI 5. The Evolution of Understanding Animals designed to deal with affordances Higher animals as intentional ...
... : Darwin's strange inversion of reasoning Reasons without reasoners Competence without comprehension 1. 2. 3. 4. Turing's strange inversion of reasoning 5. Information as design worth stealing 6. Darwinism about Darwinism.
... Turing; then evolving evolution into intelligent design; and finally turning our minds inside out. The foundation must be carefully secured, in the first five chapters, if it is to hold our imaginations in place for the second feat. The ...
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