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A review by yates9
A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
5.0
One problem with this book is the language is not as flowing as one would like, in particular when the argument becomes difficult and where you most need to pay attentiom the author tends to use tricky prose.
Another problem is the way the book acknowledges and doesn’t many consciousness research results and thesis. It does not do so exhaustively nor does the book explain how other theories have evolved in the more recent years.
The book is otherwise an extremely valuable exercise to reconnect pieces of evolutionary constraints, known biological mechanisms, known philosophical problems around consciousness into a cohesive potential thesis. The amazing outcome is that, we have almost a falsifiable thesis for what consciousness is, this is of huge concrete value in comparison to many other thesis.
If you are seriously interested in consciousness, this is an invaluable book.
Another problem is the way the book acknowledges and doesn’t many consciousness research results and thesis. It does not do so exhaustively nor does the book explain how other theories have evolved in the more recent years.
The book is otherwise an extremely valuable exercise to reconnect pieces of evolutionary constraints, known biological mechanisms, known philosophical problems around consciousness into a cohesive potential thesis. The amazing outcome is that, we have almost a falsifiable thesis for what consciousness is, this is of huge concrete value in comparison to many other thesis.
If you are seriously interested in consciousness, this is an invaluable book.