Genes, brains, minds: the human complex
Date
2005
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Palgrave Macmillan, publisher
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Abstract
In Earth's genetic natural history, the most complex thing generated is the human mind. Once critics said that mind is rare, an epiphenomenon, a freakish accident. Scientists now realize that anomalous events can be quite relevatory. What we humans have cognitively become, and what we morally ought to be, reveals more than does our origin in matter. Perhaps this primate rising from the dust of the Earth, on becoming so remarkably spiritually informed, still bears the image of God.
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This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive version of the piece may be found in Soul, Psyche, Brain by Kelly Bulkeley which can be purchased from http://www.palgrave.com/.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).
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Subject
humans
adapted minds
evolution
creativity
biology
cybernetics
nature
culture
adaptable minds
self-actualization