04886oam 2200541zu 450 991045596830332120210721054426.00-19-028933-31-280-84553-8(CKB)2450000000001868(SSID)ssj0000290391(PQKBManifestationID)12068154(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290391(PQKBWorkID)10410824(PQKB)11208914(MiAaPQ)EBC4963365(MiAaPQ)EBC5746831(Au-PeEL)EBL4963365(CaONFJC)MIL84553(OCoLC)1027167409(EXLCZ)99245000000000186820160829d2005 uy engurcnu||||||||txtcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Brief History of the MindFrom Apes to Intellect and BeyondCary :Oxford University Press Incorporated2005.1 online resource (240 pages)AnnotationThis book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if?" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where mind shifts gears again.<br />The mind's big bang came long after our brain size stopped enlarging. Calvin suggests that the development of long sentences--what modern children do in their third year--was the most likely trigger. To keep a half-dozen concepts from blending together like a summer drink, you need some mental structuring. In saying "I think I saw him leave to go home," you are nesting three sentences inside a fourth. We also structure plans, play games with rules, create structured music and chains of logic, and have a fascination with discovering how things hang together. Our long train of connected thoughts is why our consciousness is so different from what came before.<br />Where does mind go from here, its powers extended by science-enhanced education but with its slowly evolving gut instincts still firmly anchored in the ice ages? We will likely shift gears again, juggling more concepts and making decisions even faster, imagining courses of action in greater depth. Ethics are possible only because of a human level of ability to speculate, judge quality, and modify our possible actions accordingly. Though science increasingly serves as our headlights, we are out-driving them, going faster than we can react effectivelyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-518248-0 This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if?" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where mind shifts gears again. The mind's big bang came long after our brain size stopped enlarging. Calvin suggests that the development of long sentences--what modern children do in their third year--was the most likely trigger. To keep a half-dozen concepts from blending together like a summer drink, you need some mental structuring. In saying "I think I saw him leave to go home," you are nesting three sentences inside a fourth. We also structure plans, play games with rules, create structured music and chains of logic, and have a fascination with discovering how things hang together. Our long train of connected thoughts is why our consciousness is so different from what came before. Where does mind go from here, its powers extended by science-enhanced education but with its slowly evolving gut instincts still firmly anchored in the ice ages? We will likely shift gears again, juggling more concepts and making decisions even faster, imagining courses of action in greater depth. Ethics are possible only because of a human level of ability to speculate, judge quality, and modify our possible actions accordingly. Though science increasingly serves as our headlights, we are out-driving them, going faster than we can react effectively.BrainEvolutionCognitive neuroscienceEvolutionary psychologyElectronic books.BrainEvolution.Cognitive neuroscience.Evolutionary psychology.153Calvin William H290111PQKBBOOK9910455968303321A Brief History of the Mind2472340UNINA