The Evolution Of Matter And Mind

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The Evolution Of Matter Life And Mind

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Author : W. Stewart Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18

The Evolution Of Matter Life And Mind written by W. Stewart Duncan and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with History categories.

Explore the origins and evolution of the natural world with this comprehensive study by expert W.Stewart Duncan. Trace the path of matter, life, and mind throughout the history of the cosmos and discover the interconnectedness of all things in this awe-inspiring journey of discovery. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Evolving The Mind

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Author : A. Graham Cairns-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-02

Evolving The Mind written by A. Graham Cairns-Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-02 with Philosophy categories.

Evolving the Mind has two main themes: how ideas about the mind evolved in science; and how the mind itself evolved in nature. The mind came into physical science when it was realised, first, that it is the activity of a physical object, a brain, which makes a mind; and secondly, that our theories of nature are largely mental constructions, artificial extensions of an inner model of the world which we inherited from our distant ancestors. From both of these perspectives, consciousness is the great enigma. If consciousness evolved, however, it is in some sense a material thing whatever else may be said of it. Physics, chemistry, molecular biology, brain function and evolutionary biology - almost the whole of science - is involved, and there can be no expert in all these fields. So the style of the book is simple, almost conversational. The excitement is that we seem to be close to a scientific theory of consciousness.

The Evolution Of Matter Life And Mind

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Author : William Stewart Duncan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907

The Evolution Of Matter Life And Mind written by William Stewart Duncan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Evolution categories.

The Evolution Of Matter And Mind

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Author : Henri Van Zeyst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

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Evolution Of The Human Brain From Matter To Mind

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language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2019-11-06

Evolution Of The Human Brain From Matter To Mind written by and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-06 with Medical categories.

Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind, Volume 250 in the Progress in Brain Research, series documents the latest developments and insights about the origin and evolution of the human brain and mind. Specific sections in this new release include Evolution and development of the human cerebral cortex, Functional connectivity of the human cerebral cortex, Lateralization of the human cerebral cortex, Life history strategies and the human cerebral cortex, Evolution of the modern human brain, On the nature and evolution of the human mind, Origin and evolution of human cognition, Origin and evolution of human consciousness, and more. Presents insights on molecular and cellular mechanisms of human brain evolution Provides a better understanding of the origin and evolution of the human mind Includes information of the neural organization and functional connectivity of the cerebral cortex

From Matter To Mind

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Author : Catherine McKenna Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

From Matter To Mind written by Catherine McKenna Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.

The Composition Of Matter And The Evolution Of Mind

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Author : Duncan Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912

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The Composition Of Matter And The Evolution Of Mind

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Author : Duncan Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-01

The Composition Of Matter And The Evolution Of Mind written by Duncan Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with History categories.

Excerpt from The Composition of Matter and the Evolution of Mind: Immortality a Scientific Certainty This little book is not a philosophical speculation, nor is it a theory. It is a brief statement of fundamental facts corroborated by every development of Science. It presents the structural unity of the Design and the relations and inter-relations of the Infinite diversity of its manifestations in their common relationship to and dependence upon the Central Power, the Source; especially its aim is to make plain the cause of evolutionary transformations that culminated in the mind of man, which was, and is, capable of aspiration for renewal, "dominion," and, individually of progress and immortality. Sir James Crichton Browne, the English specialist, has said of physicians: "Whatever theoretical tenets they may embrace, whatever physiological system they may adopt, they will, when they find themselves medical practitioners at the bedside, become ardent vitalists." Vitalists are those who see in life more than can be accounted for on any known physical basis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Composition Of Matter And The Evolution Of Mind Immortality A Scientific Certainty

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Author : Duncan Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Release Date : 2013-09

The Composition Of Matter And The Evolution Of Mind Immortality A Scientific Certainty written by Duncan Taylor and has been published by Rarebooksclub.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...volitional Spirit of the central power. Man is sent to the "lilies" to-learn, since their perfect concurrence in gravitational law is superior to lawless reason. The embryo is awakened by the sun's attracting power, but there is in the bosom of the little seed that which is superior to sun, moon, and stars; superior we say, but not independent of, since life rejoices in and feeds upon all that ministers to its abundance, and is itself life in a lower stage of progression. If one thing could be more wonderful than another it would be the infinite variety of equilibria and swiftness of motion--" the speed of ether particles," Le Bon tells us, "is 300,000 times greater than that of a cannon ball"--of the ether particles charged with power that compose the constituent atoms of the embodiment in which every positive entity clothes itself. We know that this variety of equilibria or impact and compact of the positive and negative elements, initiative from the spirit of the central power and response, makes the infinite variety of substances, physical, mental, and psychical. WE KNOW, TOO, THAT ETHER IS THE MEDIUM OF CAUSAL LAW; IN ITS INFINITELY FINE PULSATIONS IT CARRIES SENSIBLE CONTROL AS AIR CONVEYS THE AUDIBLE COMMAND OF A MASTER. In man there are three distinct varieties of equilibria, and of consequent impact and compact of the electronic systems, and so closely are they related and correlated that the body reveals the mind, and the activities of both body and mind reveal the spirit of the man. The individual which these, soul, body, and mind constitute, is an aggregation of gravitational energy; that energy manifests itself in three ways. The positive element spirit organizes or creates, and...

The Evolution Of Mind

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Author : Joseph McCabe
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-15

The Evolution Of Mind written by Joseph McCabe and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with categories.

In this fluently-at times brilliantly-written essay, Mr. McCabe seeks to solve the cosmic problem of the birth and development of mind. It is usual, he tells us, to postulate two evolutionary series: the material, where ''all varieties of energy and matter arise out of the abysmal womb of ether," and the mental, which "set in when the earth reached a certain stage of its development." Is this dualism tenable? When, and in what form, did consciousness first appear? Can mind be brought into the cosmic unity by tracing its gradual emergence from the etheric matrix? These are the questions which the present work essays to answer. All living matter, whether plant or animal, shows, when it has freedom of movement, two properties which we may, if we will, term 'mental' or 'psychical:' namely, sensitiveness or irritability or responsiveness to stimulation, and spontaneous or self-initiated movement. But sensitiveness is also a widespread attribute of inorganic matter; and spontaneous movement always turns out, on careful scrutiny, to be a response to environmental stimuli. Here, therefore, is no evidence of consciousness; if we speak of 'mind' at all, we are stripping the word of the distinctive significance that it has in our own experience. What we are looking for is proof of consciousness. But what, then, the reader may ask, is consciousness? "I make no attempt to define consciousness," replies our author, "partly because it defines itself more clearly than words can do, partly because all attempts to define it have proved abortive." Nevertheless, he knows very well what he is in search of. "The question to be answered is not, can we find any actions in a lower animal which are consistent with a theory of consciousness, but can we find any which are inconsistent with a purely neural action. The question of consciousness does not arise till then." "What I am chiefly seeking to determine is whether a new reality, or agency, besides ether, intervenes at some point in the earth's story." "The plain purpose I have in view is to see whether, and when, a new reality, other than ether and its products or aspects, enters into the tissue of our planetary life." And so he works up the scale of organic evolution, and reaches one negative conclusion after another. "There is no proof that consciousness had appeared before the Devonian period, or has since developed in any of the modern representatives of Pre-Devonian animals." "We have no clear or cogent indication of conscious states in the whole invertebrate world, or in any type of animal that lived before the Permian revolution in the earth's history." "We have not found a single pre-Tertiary animal whose activities cannot be explained without an assumption of consciousness." The whole history so far is a history of the progress of mechanism.... -The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 22