from bacteria to bach and back review


Elements within each of these fields are relevant to the two questions Dennett wants to answer: 'How come there are minds? Dennett then considers there is nothing else to explain and he would throw up his hands in despair when I say "yes, I see that, but why does that neural potential pattern equate to my particular subjective experience?". But this profusion of seemingly disparate material is not just a display of encyclopedic erudition.

Dennett draws together decades of his thinking, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2018. Those who want something that approximates scientific evidence will have to look elsewhere. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, writes about very complex subjects with great clarity and fun.

In the end, From Bacteria to Bach and Back is a remarkably readable exploration of the evolution of the human mind by an influential philosopher and gifted writer. This fear, and idea of punishment, is such a neurotic over-reaction, and so violently and ridiculously against what actual human beings want - things that they're comfortable with, that they can talk to, and don't look like a box on a stick - just look at the massive popularity in Japan of "humanoid" cute robots - that he's just too out of touch with how real people, rather than a handful of superintelligent academics, will naturally want to develop things.

and why bottom up design is so effective, this is a must-read. Using the tools developed by Darwin, Alan Turing and more recently Richard Dawkins, he provides more definition to his view that mindless elements (cells) can build minds just as mindless ants can build castles. His knowledge of computers has been gratifyingly updated, but still beside the point. His case is well argued and persuasive in its own terms. But he can get a bit obscure and I frequently end up thinking, "Nah, that was OK but I've forgotten half of it already and I'm never going to be bothered to re-read it." Got the paper copy after listening to the audible version. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, See all details for From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. Who cares? One of America’s foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind. Always interesting, but with occasional reservations! Move on! " This is similar to Dennett's blindness to research-based models of how brains actually work - models that lead us further and further from the computer analogy. This work is naturally an integration of his earlier thinking, and so, if you have read much of his earlier work, you may not find many totally new ideas in From Bacteria. Dennett's style leads the reader to engage with his analogies and metaphors without suspending their own scepticism and without having to accept this as some final version of The Truth. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2019. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain anyone eager to make sense of how the mind works and how it came about. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. I found however that the book dealt very little with actually the evolution of minds and consciousness.


To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2017. I love Daniel Dennett because he is so gloriously and articulately wrong in such extensive detail.

I read it one chapter at a time. It's subtle though. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

4 color, 18 black-and-white illustrations I've read a few of his books, so something drags me back. I very much like the ideas presented and wished that I could have understood them more fully. Humanist Perspectives, Issue 203, Winter 2017-18 37 FROM BACTERIA TO BACH AND BACK: THE EVOLUTION OF MINDS Daniel C. Dennett W.W. Norton & Company New York City, New York, 2017 496 pages, $28.95 (hardcover) ISBN-13: 978-0-393242072 hard-wired, incapable of novel variations of Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2018. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. I think this is a new fundamental text for anyone interested in philosophy, AI or social policy. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. I've read a few of his books, so something drags me back.

Not finished it yet... but great..bought hardback edition, but too big to carry around, waiting for bus or enjoying a pint in my local. The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo D…, The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Socie…, The Weirdest People in the World: How the West B…, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Hum…, online kindergarten, escapism, and Ridley Scott’s, who will win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2017. I never know about Daniel Dennett.
The Point of view of a great philosopher. Considering its vast ambitions, Dennett’s book is a fascinating and provocative inquiry, a feat of intellectual synthesis in the tradition of Steven Pinker’s. Those who enjoy big, complex, variegated ideas will love Bacteria to Bach and Back. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. The book is a solid reference point for considering a multitude of ideas, opinions, notions and facts about the mind. There's some insight onto consciousness and evolution but treated very superficially, his ideas should be elaborated more and have a wider set of examples and cover a more significant part of the book, instead he created a literature review of theory related to natural evolution, language evolution and machine learning but not a coherent argument for his theory of "The evolution of minds" as the titled alluded. Half, if not more of the book is paraphrasing Richard Dawkins's material found in his books: The Selfish Gene and the Blind Watchmaker or otherwise Pedro Domingo's Master Algorithm. Great book, if you have been following the works of Dennet, Dawkings, Hitchens etc. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2018. The book is well written and it's very interesting read. It’s a truly ambitious project, ingeniously assembled with care, that lives up to the idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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