Since i was a ten ager, since i was 18, there was a particular moend i've just been absolutely consumed with wanting to know about the human soul. And so we wrote this book in order to give an easy to understand accounts that anybody can enjoy and make sense of. By going through each mind step by step, progressively more complicated, we can show the innovations that define each separate mind. We want to help them understand these amazing a mental phenomenon, the mystery of self awareness. How can we be aware of our own thoughts? It's amaze, and yet there's an answer to it.
Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.
Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.