Abstract
We review and summarize Terrence Deacon’s book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter.
Highlights
Terrence Deacon, a UC Berkeley professor of biological anthropology and neuroscience, has written a fascinating study, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter [1], in which he attempts to deal with issues such as values, purpose, meaning, from a scientific perspective
He attempts to find an alternative to dualism that is compatible with canonical scientific thinking
This requires a third level of dynamics, teleodynamics, which depends on morphodynamics
Summary
Terrence Deacon, a UC Berkeley professor of biological anthropology and neuroscience, has written a fascinating study, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter [1], in which he attempts to deal with issues such as values, purpose, meaning, from a scientific perspective He attempts to “first understand life, sentience, the human mind I do not claim to have understood all that he has written, but I have understood enough to know that it is an important book and worth the effort to read it and consider the challenges that it presents He describes his goals in modest terms when he writes, “My purpose ... His emergent approach builds on and extends Maturana and Varela’s [4] notion of autopoiesis and Stuart Kauffman’s [5,6] idea of autocatalysis
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