by WilliamH.Calvin (Author)
What constitutes consciousness or intelligence? This is a question that has proved to philosophers to be an intellectual dead-end. Now William Calvin, by looking closely at animal and human intelligence and a wide range of evolutionary evidence, has broken new ground that will help us understand mental illness and illuminate the whole notion of what it is to be a person. Calvin begins by asking what intelligence is. He moves to the Why of intelligence, where evidence from chimpanzees is important, before coming to the all-important How of intelligence, the cerebral codes and Darwinian processes that operate within seconds to produce intelligent thought and action.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 2
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 12 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 0753802007
ISBN 13: 9780753802007
Book Overview: Part of the Science Masters series - bringing together some of the world's finest scientists to explore and explain the key ideas in contemporary science 'Calvin is fizzing with ideas and this is a provocative, stimulating book' Sunday Times 'This book sets out what we know about our brains with remarkable skill' Financial Times 'In How Brains Think Mr Calvin takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey ... He's a member of that rare breed of scientists who can translate the arcana of their fields into lay language, and he's one of the best' New York Times 'This is a valuable introduction to the consciousness debate - a clever, exuberant work' New Scientist
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