LEADER 04182nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910812079103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-93292-6 010 $a9786612932922 010 $a0-226-77119-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226771199 035 $a(CKB)2670000000060040 035 $a(EBL)625222 035 $a(OCoLC)692205201 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12325496 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10757282 035 $a(PQKB)10328475 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC625222 035 $a(DE-B1597)524111 035 $a(OCoLC)747946402 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226771199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL625222 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10433765 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293292 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000060040 100 $a20030819d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe robot's rebellion $efinding meaning in the age of Darwin /$fKeith E. Stanovich 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (375 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-77125-3 311 0 $a0-226-77089-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-344) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tChapter 1. Staring into the Darwinian Abyss --$tChapter 2. A Brain at War with Itself --$tChapter 3. The Robot's Secret Weapon --$tChapter 4. The Biases of the Autonomous Brain: Characteristics of the Short-Leash Mind that Sometimes Cause Us Grief --$tChapter 5. How Evolutionary Psychology Goes Wrong --$tChapter 6. Dysrationalia: Why So Many Smart People Do So Many Dumb Things --$tChapter 7. From the Clutches of the Genes into the Clutches of the Memes --$tChapter 8. A Soul without Mystery: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tAuthor Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aThe idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed scientists to the conclusion that, according to the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for replication. Richard Dawkins, for example, jolted us into realizing that we are just survival mechanisms for our own genes, sophisticated robots in service of huge colonies of replicators to whom concepts of rationality, intelligence, agency, and even the human soul are irrelevant. Accepting and now forcefully responding to this decentering and disturbing idea, Keith Stanovich here provides the tools for the "robot's rebellion," a program of cognitive reform necessary to advance human interests over the limited interest of the replicators and define our own autonomous goals as individual human beings. He shows how concepts of rational thinking from cognitive science interact with the logic of evolution to create opportunities for humans to structure their behavior to serve their own ends. These evaluative activities of the brain, he argues, fulfill the need that we have to ascribe significance to human life. We may well be robots, but we are the only robots who have discovered that fact. Only by recognizing ourselves as such, argues Stanovich, can we begin to construct a concept of self based on what is truly singular about humans: that they gain control of their lives in a way unique among life forms on Earth-through rational self-determination. 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aEvolutionary psychology 606 $aMeaning (Philosophy) 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aEvolutionary psychology. 615 0$aMeaning (Philosophy) 676 $a128 700 $aStanovich$b Keith E.$f1950-$0723759 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812079103321 996 $aThe robot's rebellion$94037794 997 $aUNINA