Description: In this masterful rebuttal to the prevailing neuroscientific arguments that seek to explain away consciousness, Merlin Donald presents "a sophisticated conception of a multilayered consciousness drawing much of its power from its cultural matrix" (Booklist). Donald makes "a persuasive case...for consciousness as the central player in the drama of mind" (Peter Dodwell), as he details the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively human modes of awareness. He proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product, interweaving a super-complex form of matter (the brain) with an invisible symbolic web (culture) to form a "distributed" cognitive network. This hybrid mind, he argues, is our main evolutionary advantage, for it allowed humanity as a species to break free of the limitations of the mammalian brain. "Donald transcends the simplistic claims of Evolutionary Psychology,...offering a true Darwinian perspective on the evolution of consciousness."-Philip Lieberman Merlin Donald is a professor in the Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada.
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EAN: 9780393323191
UPC: 9780393323191
ISBN: 9780393323191
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Item Length: 20.8 cm
Number of Pages: 388 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Mind So Rare: the Evolution of Human Consciousness
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 208 mm
Item Weight: 423 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Merlin Donald
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology
Item Width: 137 mm
Format: Paperback
