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**One of America’s foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind.** How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusion and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings of proteins, neurons, and DNA is deeper than ever before, the matter of how our minds came to be has largely remained a mystery. That is now changing, says Daniel C. Dennett. In __From Bacteria to Bach and Back__, his most comprehensive exploration of evolutionary thinking yet, he builds on ideas from computer science and biology to show how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett’s legendary career at the foref

Who reads From bacteria to Bach and back : the evolution of minds?

Author

Daniel Clement Dennett; Daniel C. Dennett

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393242072

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Buddhism, History

Rating

3.75 / 5 (75 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13