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Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler (2015, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherDauphin Publications

ISBN-101939438349

ISBN-139781939438348

eBay Product ID (ePID)245719076

Product Key Features

Book TitleGhost in the Machine

Number of Pages394 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicParapsychology / General, General

Publication Year2015

IllustratorYes

GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Psychology

AuthorArthur Koestler

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight15.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal818/.5208

SynopsisIn The Sleepwalkers and The Act of Creation Arthur Koestler provided pioneering studies of scientific discovery and artistic inspiration, the twin pinnacles of human achievement. The Ghost in the Machine looks at the dark side of the coin: our terrible urge to self-destruction... Could the human species be a gigantic evolutionary mistake? To answer that startling question Koestler examines how experts on evolution and psychology all too often write about people with an 'antiquated slot-machine model based on the naively mechanistic world-view of the nineteenth century. His brilliant polemic helped to instigate a major revolution in the life sciences, yet its 'glimpses of an alternative world-view' form only the background to an even more challenging analysis of the human predicament. Perhaps, he suggests, we are a species in which ancient and recent brain structures - or reason and emotion - are not fully co-ordinated. Such in-built deficiencies may explain the paranoia, violence and insanity that are central strands of human history. And however disturbing we find such issues, Koestler contends, it is only when we face our limitations head-on that we can hope to find a remedy.