The Conscious Mind (The Conscious Mind) (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge)

by Zoltan Torey

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How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and linguistics, Torey reconstructs the sequence of events by which Homo erectus became Homo sapiens. He describes the augmented functioning that underpins the emergent mind -- a new ("off-line") internal response...Read more
  • ISBN10 0262319292
  • ISBN13 9780262319294
  • Publish Date 8 August 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint MIT Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 208
  • Language English