PDF-(BOOS)-Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

Two neuroscientists reveal why consciousness exists and how it works by examining eighteen increasingly intelligent minds from microbes to humankindand beyond Why do you exist How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing regret compassion and even marvel at their own existence What does it truly mean to have a mindto think Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until nowJourney of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness language selfawareness and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos The journey begins three billion years ago with the emergence of the universes simplest possible mind From there the book explores the nanoscopic archaeon whose thinking machinery consists of a handful of molecules then advances through amoebas worms frogs birds monkeys and humans explaining what each new mind could do that previous minds could not Though they admire the triumph of human consciousness Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam argue that humans are hardly the most sophisticated minds on the planet The same physical principles that produce human selfawareness are leading cities and nationstates to develop superminds and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousnessWritten in lively accessible language accompanied by vivid illustrations Journey of the Mind is a mindbending work of popular science the first general book to share the cuttingedge mathematical basis for consciousness language and the self It shows how a unified theory of the mind can explain the minds greatest mysteriesand offer clues about the ultimate fate of all minds in the universe. 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