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Hello,

I would be grateful if someone could create a record for my upcoming book. Please note, there are some author records for Matthew Benton. I am not any of these, and am publishing with my middle initial to clarify that.

Many thanks.

* Title: The Case for a Living Universe
* Subtitle: Is there mind in all matter?
* Author(s) name(s): Matthew R. Benton
* ISBN (or ASIN): 978-1-0686204-0-9
* Publisher: Postbridge Books, https://www.postbridgebooks.co.uk
* Publication Date Year: 2024
* Publication Date Month: August
* Publication Date Day: 14
* Page count: 288 (paperback)
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Paperback, ebook. (Hardcover may follow)
* Category: Nonfiction. Popular science, philosophy, animal cognition.
* Language: English
* Description: (Backcover blurb)
We are composed of the same atoms as the rocks, soil, mountains and nothing more. They are apparently aware of nothing, whereas we are aware of the physical world, ourselves and much more besides. How is this possible?

Science says minds emerge from wholly unknowing matter. The idea that mind and matter are, in fact, one and the same has long been considered an elegant, although impractical answer to the question above.

This book argues that we live in an intelligent, decision-making universe, and that our consciousness grows from an intelligence present throughout nature. Unlike most philosophy works, it gives the non-human world its proper status, describing recent studies into animal cognition and the sophisticated behaviours of some non-animal life.

It shows that the reason mind in nature is seen as an eccentric or mystical notion, is because Western culture has wrongly elevated humans above all other species. As Charles Darwin once wrote: "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."

Paperback added without the cover: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

We cannot take the cover from a website unless it is specifically showing the ISBN (even if the provided site belongs to the publisher).

Also, what is the ISBN number for the e-book edition? Each edition should have its own ISBN number.

If you are interested you can claim your author profile (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...) here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/auth...

If you claim your author profile, you will be able to add the cover yourself + add and edit new editions of your books or add new books (your) in general.

Hi

Thanks. I haven't assigned an ISBN to the ebook yet, but I will do that later today and update.

ISBN for ebook will be 978-1-0686204-1-6

I've just created the isbn record in Nielsen title editor. I don't know how long they take to appear.

Thanks.