The mind made flesh : essays from the frontiers of psychology and evolution
In a series of essays, Nicholas Humphrey invites us to "take another look" at a variety of central and not-so-central issues, including: the evolution of consciousness, multiple personality disorder, cave art, religious miracles, medieval animal trials, and the seductions of dictatorship.
x, 366 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
9780192802279, 0192802275
1170629365
1. On Taking Another Look ; 2. One Self: a Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness ; 3. What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made? ; 4. Speaking for Our Selves: an Assessment of Multiple Personality ; 5. Love Knots ; 6. The Uses of Consciousnes ; 7. Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing* ; 8. Great Expectations: the Evolutionary Psychology of Faith Healing and the Placebo Effect ; 9. Scientific Shakespeare ; 10. How to solve the Mind Body Problem ; 11. The Privitization of Sensation ; 12. Mind in Nature ; 13. Cave Art, Autism and the Evolution of the Human Mind ; 14. The Deformed Transformed ; 15. Varieties of Altruism and the Common Ground between Them ; 16. Bugs and Beasts before the Law ; 17. The Number of the Beast ; 18. Behold the Man ; 19. Tall Stories from Little Acorns Grow ; 20. Hello Aquarius ; 21. What Shall We Tell the Children? ; 22. Arms and the Man ; 23. Death in Tripoli ; 24. Follow my leader