Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos Ogas Ogi
Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos Ogas Ogi Why do you exist? What does it truly mean to have a mind--to think? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that…
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Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos Ogas Ogi
Why do you exist? What does it truly mean to have a mind--to think? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence?
The journey begins three billion years ago with the emergence of the universe's simplest possible mind. Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos. 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.
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