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Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind » (1st Edition)
Authors: Ian Stewart, Ian Stewart
ISBN-13: 9780521663830, ISBN-10: 0521663830
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Ian Stewart
Book Synopsis
Popular science tour de force from bestselling authors, on evolution of intelligence, culture and mind.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Figure Acknowledgements | ||
| Prologue | 1 | |
| 1 | The Origins of Life | 5 |
| 2 | The Reductionist Nightmare | 33 |
| 3 | Ant Country | 63 |
| 4 | Winning Ways | 77 |
| 5 | Universals and Parochials | 109 |
| 6 | Neural Nests | 135 |
| 7 | Features Great and Small | 165 |
| 8 | What is it Like to be a Human? | 193 |
| 9 | We Wanted to Have a Chapter on Free Will, but We Decided not to, so Here It Is | 227 |
| 10 | Extelligence | 243 |
| 11 | Simplex, Complex, Multiplex | 271 |
| Epilogue | 301 | |
| Notes | 305 | |
| Further Reading | 313 | |
| Index | 317 |
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