Jeremy Sherman

Neither Ghost nor Machine (eBook, ePUB)

The Emergence and Nature of Selves

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

All organisms try to achieve what matters to them. Inanimate things don't. How to explain this difference? In Neither Ghost nor Machine, Jeremy Sherman distills Terrence Deacon's breakthrough natural science hypothesis for the emergence of agents and agency, selves and aims in an otherwise aimless universe. The theory cuts a new path through the dualistic spirit vs. mechanism debate, unifying the hard and soft sciences, explaining how mattering emerges from matter, and suggesting new solutions to philosophical mysteries that have perplexed humanity for millennia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231545990
• Artikelnr.: 49432456

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Sherman is a decision theorist researching and writing about choice from the origin of life to everyday living. He teaches college courses across the social sciences and blogs for Psychology Today. He has studied and collaborated with Terrence Deacon for twenty years.

Terrence Deacon is professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain (1997) and Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (2011).