Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into KnowledgeJeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005 - 267 sidor Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels around the globe-from the Amazon basin to the Far East-to probe what traditional healers and pioneering researchers perceive about the intelligence present in all forms of life. "Intelligence in Nature" offers overwhelming illustrative evidence that independent intelligence is not unique to humanity. Indeed, bacteria, plants, animals, and other forms of nonhuman life display an uncanny proclivity for self-deterministic decisions, patterns, and actions. The Japanese possess a word for this universal knowing: chi-sei. For the first time, Narby presents an in-depth anthropological study of this concept in the West. He not only uncovers a mysterious thread of intelligent behavior within the natural world but also probes the question of what humanity can learn from nature's economy and knowingness in its own search for a saner and more sustainable way of life. |
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... consider animals as automatons or machines . An awkward growth of knowledge has occurred . But still , I wondered why the mechanical view of na- ture held sway for so long over twentieth - century science . I looked to the history of ...
... consider animals as automatons or machines . An awkward growth of knowledge has occurred . But still , I wondered why the mechanical view of na- ture held sway for so long over twentieth - century science . I looked to the history of ...
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... consider my interest in nature's " intelligence " with suspi- cion . But this turned out not to be the case ... considering other species as anything other than machines . Instead I found a broad base of scientists studying biology with ...
... consider my interest in nature's " intelligence " with suspi- cion . But this turned out not to be the case ... considering other species as anything other than machines . Instead I found a broad base of scientists studying biology with ...
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... consider the unconscious realm , a world which has a great deal of influence on consciousness . We have only to consider our own internal information - processing Notes • 211.
... consider the unconscious realm , a world which has a great deal of influence on consciousness . We have only to consider our own internal information - processing Notes • 211.
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