How Consciousness Came Into Being

By Dr D T Galbraith

This work presents a unique solution to the problem of consciousness that reconciles scientific and humanist understandings of the human being. In seven clear steps, D.T. Galbraith describes the evolutionary journey from the Homo sapiens of 200,000 years ago to the human being of today, showing how consciousness came about through our daily interactions with out habitat and with each other. The book shows in detail how consciousness evolved out of the body but became a distinct cultural phenomenon and argues that we should no longer consider our evolutionary vehicle as the body or the DNA but as a special ontological development, the human personality. Dr. Galbraith recounts how social consciousness and agency, language and culture came about through an evolutionary process that is continuous rather than alien to the body and thereby presents an evolution-based solution to the mind/ body problem.How Consciousness Came Into Being has set changing implications for psychology, biology, philosophy of mind and social theory. This edition includes a 20-page appendix that gives an analytical account of how consciousness evolved from the operations of the central nervous system.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615607683
• ISBN13: 9780615607689
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Dudingston Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"