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A Mind So Rare
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Merlin Donald
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Donald (psychology, Queen's University, Canada) challenges the prevailing view that seeks to explain away human consciousness and presents a theory on the origi
Origins of the Modern Mind
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Merlin Donald
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-03-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merl
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Language: en
Pages: 580
Authors: Julian Jaynes
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-08-15 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Col
The Way We Think
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Gilles Fauconnier
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-06 - Publisher: Basic Books

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In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition -- the func
Shadows of the Mind
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Roger Penrose
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; an