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How to make a human being: a body of evidence

By Christopher , Potter

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers;Fourth Estate
ISBN
9780007447794, 9780007447800, 0007447809
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1514731 bytes)
Pages
328 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Human beings;Ontology;Philosophy;Reality

Description

A startling investigation of what it means to be human. Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being? And could we ever make one? In order to answer these questions, other questions get in the way: What is it like to be a human being?What is it like to be some other kind of animal?What is reality?What is consciousness?Is there a God?What is love?Why live? The questions proliferate. But all these questions can be viewed as facets of a single question: What is science? In How To Make a Human Being Christopher Potter shows how, at every scale of description, human beings escape the net of scientific reductionism. What it is to be human can be glimpsed in the details: in the opening of a window, in a shared joke. But cannot be caught by any reductive scientific description.

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