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050 14 $aBF311$b.D57 2001
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100 1 $aDonald, Merlin,$d1939-
245 12 $aA mind so rare :$bthe evolution of human consciousness /$cMerlin Donald.
250 $aPaperback edition.
260 $aNew York :$bNorton,$c©2002.
300 $axiv, 371 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-362) and index.
520 $aMerlin Donald refutes the arguments of certain scientists and philosophers who have dismissed consciousness as a superficial byproduct of evolution, or even an entirely irrelevant factor in human cognition. His thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively human modes of awareness. Donald proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of interweaving a super-complex form of matter (the brain) with an invisible symbolic web (culture) to form a "distributed" cognitive network. This hybrid mind allowed humanity as a species to break free of the limitations of the mammalian brain. Marshaling evidence from brain and behavioral studies of humans and animals, Donald explains how an expansion of conscious capacity was the key to this revolutionary development and insightfully projects how the human mind might adapt in the future, as we fall increasingly under the spell of symbolic technology.
505 00 $g1.$tConsciousness in evolution --$g2.$tThe paradox of consciousness --$g3.$tThe governor of mental life --$g4.$tThe consciousness club --$g5.$tThree levels of basic awareness --$g6.$tCondillac's statue --$g7.$tThe first hybrid minds on earth --$g8.$tThe triumph of consciousness.
650 0 $aConsciousness.
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