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Philip Sullivan M.D. (Author)

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February 25, 2005
"Do we see the world as it really is, or is the world of our experience mere illusion?" That question has fascinated reflective people since ancient times. Modern neuroscience has finally provided the definitive answer -- it's both -- and The World According To Homo Sapiens explains how this comes to be so.

Aimed primarily at a sophisticated general readership interested in how the human brain works, Homo Sapiens is written in a good-humored conversational style, using only the occasional well-explained technical term. At the same time, however, it clearly has innovative things to say to specialists in the theory-of-mind.

Homo Sapiens deals with three pivotal issues of the new brain-science, each selected because of its inherent interest to general readers: PART I focuses on our systematic human illusions about 'What Is'; PART II develops a biologically based grounding for human moral choice; and PART III addresses the unresolved enigma of human consciousness -- how we are to account for the presence of this amazing property in the naturalized world of modern science.


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Doctor Sullivan has been a practicing psychiatrist since 1961. He has also held a clinical professorship at Harvard Medical School, teaching both neuroscience and clinical psychiatry. He lives in a country abode where he raises sheep, observes the workings of nature, and frequently ponders the BIG questions concerning human existence.

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mid size objects, midsize objects, verbal containers, glorious species, engineering shortcuts, explanatory story, consciousness substance, human apparatus, conceptual objects, current theorists
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Natural Selection, Principle of Causality, Transcendent Being, Principle of the Excluded Middle, John Locke, Standard Model, Cheshire Cat, John Searle, Albert Schweitzer, Transcendent God, Town Hall, First Principles, Personal God, David Hume, Santa Claus, Eurema Lisa, René Descartes, Blueberry Hill, God Child, Twentieth Century, Pure Consciousness Event
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