Consciousness Evolving

Advances in Consciousness Research #34

by James H. Fetzer (Editor)

A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform for considering what it is that makes humans distinctive. Beginning with an essay that accents the nature of the problem within a behavioristic framework and concluding with reflections on the prospects for a form of immortality through serial cloning, the chapters are divided into three sections, which concern how and why consciousness may have evolved, special capacities involving language, creativity, and mentality as candidates for evolved adaptations, and the prospects for artificial evolution though the design of robots with specific forms of consciousness and mind. This volume should appeal to every reader who wants to better understand the human species, including its distinctive properties and its place in nature. (Series A)

273 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2002

About the author

American philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota.
Fetzer has written books about philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of computer science. He's an member of Scholars for 9/11 truth and believes the JFK assassination was an conspiracy.