ISBN:
9783030503826
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (XV, 276 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gee, James Paul What is a human?
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I -- 1 Terman -- References -- 2 Humans -- The Human Brain -- The Associational Brain -- Other Brains -- Homeostasis -- Takeaways -- References -- 3 More Than Animals? -- Consciousness -- References -- 4 Human-Made Monsters -- A Mad Experiment: Monsters -- Environments Transform Humans -- Baboons and Status -- Montaigne -- References -- 5 Conclusion to Part I -- Part II -- 6 Fetishes -- From Harlow to Fetishes -- Fetishes Led to Human Thinking -- References -- 7 Examples of Fetishes -- Grades -- Money -- Membership -- References -- 8 Doubling Fetishes -- Shamans and Symbols -- References -- 9 The Imaginarium -- Bene and Me -- What I Would Be Thinking If It Were Me -- Bene and I Compared -- References -- 10 The Conscious Brain -- References -- 11 The Gang of Six -- The Ghost in the Machine -- References -- 12 Language -- The Deepest Fetishes About Language: Meaning Is "In the Head" -- The Deepest Fetishes About Language: Language Is a Picture of Reality -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Stress and the State -- Stress -- Politics -- State-Based Ideology and Civics -- The State as Fetish -- The Mystery of Civil Obedience -- References -- 14 Another Attempt to Answer Our Question -- Normative Rationality: Thinking with Other People in Our Heads -- Normative Morality: Thinking with Culture in Our Head -- "Crowning Achievement" -- References -- 15 Conclusion to Part II -- References -- Part III -- 16 Messages from the Dead -- An Interlude on Poetry and Me -- Slow Language -- A Poem as a Message from the Past -- References -- 17 Embodied Meaning -- Specific Universals -- References -- 18 Specific Universals -- References -- 19 Morality -- References -- 20 The Examined Life -- Mundanity -- References -- 21 Conclusion to Part III -- Part IV -- 22 Plug-and-Play -- What Is Plugging and Playing? -- Morality -- Flourishing.
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