THE SHATTERED SELF. The End of Natural Evolution.
Language: English
Published by A Bradford Book, The MIT Press (2001), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001
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Octavo, 245 pages, black cloth covers. Includes black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. Book and dust jacket in Fine condition. 071902A.
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- Title
- THE SHATTERED SELF. The End of Natural Evolution.
- Author
- Baldi, Pierre
- Publisher
- A Bradford Book, The MIT Press (2001), Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262025027
- ISBN 13
- 9780262025027
- Edition
- first edition
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Through evolution our brains have been wired to provide us with an inner sense of self, a feeling that each of us is a unique individual delimited by precise boundaries. We have also been wired to reproduce ourselves in a certain way. Baldi argues that this self-centered view of the world is scientifically wrong. Its past success lies in its being an adequate model during our evolutionary bootstrapping: a world without molecular biotechnology, human cloning, and the Internet. Eventually we must come to terms with the fact that genomes, computations, and mind are fluid, continuous entities, in both space and time. The boundary between the self and the world has begun to blur and ultimately may evaporate entirely. Baldi offers not predictions but an open-eyed exploration of our current state of knowledge and the possibilities that lie ahead.
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