LEADER 05026nam 2200589 450 001 9910818289703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-028933-3 010 $a1-280-84553-8 035 $a(CKB)2450000000001868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000290391 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12068154 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290391 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10410824 035 $a(PQKB)11208914 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4963365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746831 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4963365 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL84553 035 $a(OCoLC)1027167409 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5746831 035 $a(OCoLC)1104078474 035 $a(EXLCZ)992450000000001868 100 $a20190624h20052004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA brief history of the mind $efrom apes to intellect and beyond /$fWilliam H. Calvin 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2005. 210 4$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) 300 8 $aAnnotation$bThis 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 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-518248-0 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aBrain$xEvolution 606 $aCognitive neuroscience 606 $aEvolutionary psychology 615 0$aBrain$xEvolution. 615 0$aCognitive neuroscience. 615 0$aEvolutionary psychology. 676 $a612.82 700 $aCalvin$b William H.$f1939-$0290111 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818289703321 996 $aA brief history of the mind$94110367 997 $aUNINA