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The Ghost in the Machine (Arkana) (Paperback)

by Arthur Koestler (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Arkana; New edition edition (7 Dec 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140191925
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140191929
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 396,325 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sweeping through man's psychological and intellectual development, Koestler attempts to show how the moral development of humans has failed to keep pace and ends with a plea for a new moral sense of purpose to match humankind's creative and technological achievements.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent alternative to the darwin theory!, 26 Feb 2001
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As a young, lost university student, I find this book so sacred! Arthur Koestler's alternative hypothesis to Darwin's evolution theory( The 'Holon' sub-struture and its hierarchy, eg: A human is a holon, a whole individual yet just a sub-structure of society too) is excellent, and so is his criticisms of the behaviourist theory. I cannot say in so few words, how this book has changed my perspective on life and the reason for our existence, Questioning whether we were just a big mistake of evolution! Although it written quite a while ago, this book is still relevant today. Quite a excellent read for budding scientists and philosiphers, although it creates many questions as it answers( I couldn't believe it when the last page so suddenly appeared). This book emcompasses so many various subjects about human life and their roots(emotion,power,sex,war, etc) it is difficult to stress them all. However this is one of those books you HAVE to read. Quote: (on the brain) "we have still only learned to utilise a very small fraction of its estimated hundreds thousand million circuits....it is entirely unprecedented that evolution should provide a species with a organ which it does not know how to use;a luxury organ..."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Koestler at his best, 4 April 2009
By Tony Walker (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
An important books that trashes Behavioural psychology and highlights some of the problems that still remain in Darwin's theory. Very readable and highly recommended.
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