Incomplete nature
Subtitle: how mind emerged from matter
By: Terrence W. Deacon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9780393049916
Subjects: Origin; Brain; Life; Consciousness; Phenomenology; Biogenesis; Physiology
Description: Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Absence; title: (W)holes; title: Homunculi; title: Golems; title: Teleonomy; title: Emergence; title: Constraint; title: Homeodynamics; title: Morphodynamics; title: Teleodynamics; title: Autogenesis; title: Work; title: Information; title: Significance; title: Evolution; title: Self; title: Sentience; title: Consciousness; title: Epilogue.