Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--And Shape It Reese Byron
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--And Shape It Reese Byron Byron Reese gets to the heart of what makes humans different from all others. And how did we get…
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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--And Shape It Reese Byron
Byron Reese gets to the heart of what makes humans different from all others. And how did we get this way?This fascinating tale explores the three leaps in our history that made us what we are--and will change how you think about our future.Look around. --Midwest Book ReviewWhat makes the human mind so unique?
Where are the Bronze Age beavers? Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? The Iron Age iguanas?
In Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think, Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in.Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented