- Origin, Brain, Life, Consciousness
Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and cool.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Terrence William Deacon
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 603
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton, W.W. Norton & Co.
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393343908
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