Ghost in the Machine – Arthur Koestler – Softcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Book's in good shape. See photos.”
- ISBN
- 9781939438348
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dauphin Publications
ISBN-10
1939438349
ISBN-13
9781939438348
eBay Product ID (ePID)
245719076
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ghost in the Machine
Number of Pages
394 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Parapsychology / General, General
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
818/.5208
Synopsis
In The Sleepwalkers and The Act of Creation Arthur Koestler provided pioneering studies of scientific discovery and artistic inspiration, the twin pinnacles of human achievement. The Ghost in the Machine looks at the dark side of the coin: our terrible urge to self-destruction... Could the human species be a gigantic evolutionary mistake? To answer that startling question Koestler examines how experts on evolution and psychology all too often write about people with an 'antiquated slot-machine model based on the naively mechanistic world-view of the nineteenth century. His brilliant polemic helped to instigate a major revolution in the life sciences, yet its 'glimpses of an alternative world-view' form only the background to an even more challenging analysis of the human predicament. Perhaps, he suggests, we are a species in which ancient and recent brain structures - or reason and emotion - are not fully co-ordinated. Such in-built deficiencies may explain the paranoia, violence and insanity that are central strands of human history. And however disturbing we find such issues, Koestler contends, it is only when we face our limitations head-on that we can hope to find a remedy.
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