From Bacteria to Bach and Back

书名：From Bacteria to Bach and BackTheEvolutionofMinds
作者：DanielC.Dennett
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ISBN：9780393242072
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
出版时间：2017-2-7
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：448
豆瓣评分： 8.6

书籍简介：

One of America’s foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind. How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusion and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings of proteins, neurons, and DNA is deeper than ever before, the matter of how our minds came to be has largely remained a mystery. That is now changing, says Daniel C. Dennett. In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his most comprehensive exploration of evolutionary thinking yet, he builds on ideas from computer science and biology to show how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett’s legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought. In his inimitable style―laced with wit and arresting thought experiments―Dennett explains that a crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. Competition among memes―a form of natural selection―produced thinking tools so well-designed that they gave us the power to design our own memes. The result, a mind that not only perceives and controls but can create and comprehend, was thus largely shaped by the process of cultural evolution. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain anyone eager to make sense of how the mind works and how it came about. 4 color, 18 black-and-white illustrations

作者简介：

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University and the author of numerous books including Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Breaking the Spell, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and Consciousness Explained.

书友短评：

@ X 打call @ 整体来说这是一本关于进化、文化、意识、认知方面全面思考的书。有好几个想法，比如competence without comprehesion，很新颖，确实很好地articulate了好几个杂糅在一起的问题。很受益。 @ 世界的尽头 和《递归与偶然》搭配着一起看。宇宙的循环与意识的循环，因果（“完满”的解释）与理由（人类需要的合理性），实然与应然，规律与规范。我在想我应该如何重述丹尼特的理论呢？如何因果的理解规范或说规范如何从因果中建立？如何理解意识与世界？ @ 饭面粥饼 虽然对哲学史没太大兴趣，但是实在也没法理解对当代哲学家崇拜得五体投地的事例……（不针对DD，他是相对配得上被崇拜的人了） @ bks Human brain is a work of nature and man-made selection. Comprehension emerges out of competence. Consciousness is a user-illusion.. @ Je ne en juin 虽然对哲学史没太大兴趣，但是实在也没法理解对当代哲学家崇拜得五体投地的事例……（不针对DD，他是相对配得上被崇拜的人了） @ 世界的尽头 和《递归与偶然》搭配着一起看。宇宙的循环与意识的循环，因果（“完满”的解释）与理由（人类需要的合理性），实然与应然，规律与规范。我在想我应该如何重述丹尼特的理论呢？如何因果的理解规范或说规范如何从因果中建立？如何理解意识与世界？

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