The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

University of Chicago Press (2005)
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Responds to the idea that humans are merely survival mechanisms for their own genes, providing the tools to advance human interests over the interests of the replicators through rational self-determination.

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9780226771250   0226771253   0226770893   9780226771199   0226771199   0226743438

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PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1. Staring into the Darwinian Abyss

Chapter 2. A Brain at War with Itself

Chapter 3. The Robot’s Secret Weapon

Chapter 4. The Biases of the Autonomous Brain: Characteristics of the Short-Leash Mind that Sometimes Cause Us Grief

Chapter 5. How Evolutionary Psychology Goes Wrong

Chapter 6. Dysrationalia: Why So Many Smart People Do So Many Dumb Things

Chapter 7. From the Clutches of the Genes into the Clutches of the Memes

Chapter 8. A Soul without Mystery: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

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