Evolving the Mind On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness

"It is an extremely clear, engaging, and informative account of a vast topic, one that includes physics, evolution, biochemistry, neuroscience, and psychology. One would imagine that detail and factuality would suffer significantly from its casting such a wide net, but that is not the case. 'Evolving the Mind' is the best kind of popular science: it goes far beyond mere description, to include much of the history of scientific progress, and to analyze what science is. All that establishes a very rich context for Cairns-Smith's account of the origins and nature of consciousness.Cairns-Smith, A. Graham is the author of 'Evolving the Mind On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness' with ISBN 9780521402200 and ISBN 0521402204.