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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds Hardback - 2017 - 1st Edition

by Daniel C. Dennett

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with sticker residue on the front cover and shelf/edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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  • Title From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
  • Author Daniel C. Dennett
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition FIRST EDITION
  • Condition New
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 387990
  • ISBN 9780393242072 / 0393242072
  • Weight 1.86 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.7 in (24.38 x 16.76 x 4.32 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Consciousness
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016046790
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.2
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

How did we come to have minds?

For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusion and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings of proteins, neurons, and DNA is deeper than ever before, the matter of how our minds came to be has largely remained a mystery.

That is now changing, says Daniel C. Dennett. In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his most comprehensive exploration of evolutionary thinking yet, he builds on ideas from computer science and biology to show how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett's legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought.

In his inimitable style--laced with wit and arresting thought experiments--Dennett explains that a crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. Competition among memes--a form of natural selection--produced thinking tools so well-designed that they gave us the power to design our own memes. The result, a mind that not only perceives and controls but can create and comprehend, was thus largely shaped by the process of cultural evolution.

An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain anyone eager to make sense of how the mind works and how it came about.

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