The Evolution of Consciousness: Of Darwin, Freud, and Cranial Fire - The Origins of the Way We Think

304 Pages Indexed. Line illustrations by Ted Dewan on almost every page. This book will change the way you lthink about your mind. Ornstein introduces his panoramic history of the mind's evolution by explaining that we are not rational, but adaptive. The mind, like our bodies, evolved to help us survive --- avoid danger, procure food, and perpetuate the species ---- not to reason why. Our mind still contais within itself not two hemispheres, buet a phalanx of adaptations to circumstances. Passionate, enteertaining, and provocative, this is nothing less than a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about the human and mind and how it works. Contents in Eight Parts: The Work of the Mind, The Long View The Physical Evolution of the Mind, The Inner Workings of the Mind, Pieces of the Puzzle Brain Prodcesses and Organization, The Dream of the World, Is This the Person to Whom I'm Speaking, Getting to Know Yous, and Why There Will Be No Further Evolution Without Conscious Evolution. Plus Preface, Afterword, and Bibliography. The author is President of the institute for the Study of Human Knowledge. He teaches at University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, and at Stanford University. He has done extensive research on the human brain is the author of several books on the brain, psychology of consciousness, healthy pleasures, and related subjects.…