Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

by Terrence W. Deacon

Book Overview

Incomplete Nature begins by accepting what other theories try to deny: that, although mental contents do indeed lack these material-energetic properties, they are still entirely products of physical processes and have an unprecedented kind of causal power that is unlike anything that physics and chemistry alone have so far explained. Paradoxically, it is the intrinsic incompleteness of these semiotic and teleological phenomena that is the source...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393049914
• ISBN13: 9780393049916
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"