The Conscious Mind av Zoltan Torey

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<b>An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech.</b><p>How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind.</p><p>Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and linguistics, Torey reconstructs the sequence of events by which <i>Homo erectus</i> became <i>Homo sapiens</i>. He describes the augmented functioning that underpins the emergent mind—a new (“off-line”) internal response system with which the brain accesses itself and then forms a selection mechanism for mentally generated behavior options. This functional brea