A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness

by NicholasHumphrey (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1999

  $28.12

  This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the phantom pain experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of blindsight, Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors'bodily responses to pain and pleasure. Humphrey is one of that growing band of scientists who beat literary folk at their own game -RICHARD DAWKINS A wonderful bookbrilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely through the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems offering a feast of provocative ideas. -DANIEL DENNETT

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.57

  The mind-body problem is widely seen as the great remaining challenge to science and philosophy. Why and how did matter evolve to take on the quality of mind? The author takes the reader to the edges of current knowledge and back to the beginning of time, before mind existed, and in doing so constructs a history of consciousness. Nicholas Humphrey's previous books include Four Minutes to Midnight , Consciousness Regained and The Inner Eye .

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.42

  The mind-body problems are widely seen as the great remaining challenge to science and philosophy. Why and how did matter evolve to take on the quality of mind? The author takes the reader to the very edges of current knowledge and back to the beginning of time, before mind existed, and in doing so constructs a history of consciousness. Nicholas Humphrey's previous books include Four Minutes to Midnight , Consciousness Regained and The Inner Eye .