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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds is a 2017 book about the origin of human consciousness by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author makes a case for a materialist theory of mind, arguing that consciousness is no more mysterious than gravity.Drawing on ideas from René Descartes and Charles Darwin, Dennett writes that:and that:Physician Harriet Hall reviewing the book for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, said that "Dennett is always worth reading, and this latest book distills his current thinking and all he has learned over the years". He discusses many "conundrums with facts and arguments from evolution and neuroscience". "Dennett warns that trying to understand consciousness, 'We mustn't let our moral intuitions distort our empirical investigation from the outset'". Hall suggests that this book is not for light reading, but well written, something you will need to think about as you ponder "how consciousness works and how it came about".

Ever wondered who you really are? This collection enlivens this central question in the philosophy of mind. The questions posed in this book are at the heart of all philosophical reasoning. They're the ultimate questions about the self. The Mind's I contains a variety of approaches to answering the question, "Who am I?" Editors Hofstadter &amp; Dennett--leading lights in the study of cognitive science, artificial intelligence &amp; the philosophy of mind--follow each selection with short reflections designed to elaborate on main themes. The Mind's I broadens their fields to a general audience. The book's essays are grouped into six categories, each successively raising the philosophical stakes by introducing new levels of complexity. Ultimately, one confronts some of the thorniest questions in modern philosophy, such as the nature of free will, our place in the metaphysical world &amp; the possibility of artificial intelligence. The book closes with a perplexing piece by Robert Nozick, an adequate summation to The Mind's I. He writes, "Perhaps God has not decided yet whether he has created, in this world, a fictional world or a real one...Which decision do you hope for?"--Eric de Place (edited)PrefaceIntroductionBorges &amp; I/ Jorge Luis BorgesOn having no head/ D.E. HardingRediscovering the mind/ Harold J. MorowitzComputing machinery &amp; intelligence/ A.M. TuringThe Turing test: a coffeehouse conversation/ Douglas R. HofstadterThe Princess Ineffabelle/ Stanislaw LemThe soul of Martha, a beast/ Terrel MiedanerThe soul of the Mark III Beast/ Terrel MiedanerSpirit/ Allen WhellisSelfish genes &amp; selfish memes/ Richard DawkinsPrelude...ant fugue/ Douglas HofstadterThe story of a brain/ Arnold ZuboffWhere am I? / Daniel C. DennettWhere was I?/ David Hawley SanfordBeyond rejection/ Justin LeiberSoftware/ Rudy RuckerThe riddle of the Universe &amp; its solution/ Christopher CherniakThe 7th Sally or How Trurl's own perfection led to no good/ Stanislaw LemNon serviam/ Statislaw LemIs God a Taoist?/ Raymond M. SmullyanThe circular ruins/ Jorge Luis BorgesMinds, brains &amp; programs/ John R. SearleAn unfortunate dualist/ Raymond M. SmullyanWhat is it like to be a bat?/ Thomas NagelAn espistemological nightmare/ Raymond M. SmullyanA conversation with Einstein's brain/ Douglas R. HofstadterFiction/ Robert NozickFurther ReadingAcknowledgmentsIndex

"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book ReviewConsciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life-of people, animal, even robots--are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book.

In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit that prompted Mark Ridley to write in the New York Times Book Review, "No other science writer makes me laugh so much. . . . [Pinker] deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him."  The arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates some unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection, and challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, and that nature is good and modern society corrupting. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 Featured in Time magazine, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nature, Science, Lingua Franca, and Science Times Front-page reviews in the Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe Book Section, and the San Diego Union Book Review

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