How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence

How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence
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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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Christopher Potter. How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence

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SECTION 1. Getting started

SECTION 2. What can the matter be?

SECTION 3. Taking sides

SECTION 4. Nothing → something → everything

SECTION 5. What is science?

SECTION 6. What is the universe?

SECTION 7. Evidence for the existence of an external world

SECTION 8. Evidence against the existence of an external world

SECTION 9. On time

SECTION 10. On things

SECTION 11. Starting again

SECTION 1. Matter → meat

SECTION 2. Making babies

SECTION 3. On consciousness

SECTION 4. On the self

SECTION 5. Meat → mind

SECTION 6. On perception

SECTION 7. On free will

SECTION 8. On behaviour

SECTION 9. There is always something missing

SECTION 10. When the gene is no longer enough

SECTION 11. On tools and human evolution

SECTION 12. Being rather than making

SECTION 1. On culture

SECTION 2. On the relationship between human beings and nature

SECTION 3. On the relationship between human beings and other animals

SECTION 4. On the relationship between human beings and other human beings

SECTION 5. On love

SECTION 6. On doing the right thing

SECTION 7. On the difficulty of being

SECTION 8. On dreams and doing nothing

SECTION 9. On memory

SECTION 10. On faith, belief and truth

SECTION 11. On God

SECTION 12. On eternity

SECTION 13. On death

SECTION 14. On humility

Footnotes

Select bibliography

Index of names

By the same author

About the Publisher

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Section 10: On faith, belief and truth

Section 11: On God

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