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MAKING SENSE
OF BEING ALIVE A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MIND Making Sense Of Being Alive presents a modern distillation of the human mind, inviting us to marvel at the very special brain from which our minds emerge.
In this scholarly review, James Brennan weaves together evidence from psychology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, the social and neuro sciences, humanities and the arts, threading it all through with his own experience as a practising clinical psychologist, to reveal a new perspective on our most treasured organ. Here is an up-to-date portrait of the mind for the general reader, joining up the scientific dots with people’s lived experience, and seeking to locate the mind within the natural world. The result is a fresh and compelling story of the human mind. |