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What constitutes consciousness or intelligence? This is a question that has proved to philosophers to be an intellectual dead-end. Now William Calvin, by looking closely at animal and human intelligence and a wide range of evolutionary evidence, has broken new ground that will help us understand mental illness and illuminate the whole notion of what it is to be a person.
Calvin begins by asking what intelligence is. He moves to the Why of intelligence, where evidence from chimpanzees is important, before coming to the all-important How of intelligence, the cerebral codes and Darwinian processes that operate within seconds to produce intelligent thought and action.
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William H. Calvin is a theoretical neurobiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of eleven books, including The Cerebral Code, The River That Flows Uphill and (wiht the neurosurgeon George A. Ojemann) Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language.
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