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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts Ian Steward and Jack Cohen's Figments of Reality with Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. Ideas about evolution, the mind and culture and how it interrelates are discussed. No additional sources cited.
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universe began to how human beings think, there seem to be a great deal of lingering questions. Scientists and philosophers attempt to address such issues and provide plausible theories, but
these are often just remnants of the truth. Still, it is all the human being has as he or she plunges forward and embarks on what humans call "life."
Ian Steward and Jack Cohens (1997) interpretation of the mind is that it is something that has evolved and continues to evolve. It is not as if the mind were
a complex thing that simply was created at the time of man, or that even it was whole when man evolved to his current state. Instead, the mind is still
evolving. Authors address a variety of subjects and one can see their humor as expressed in the chapter title "We wanted to have a chapter on free will, but
we decided not to, so here it is." Certainly it is hard to discern exactly what they mean by the designation, but it is clear that authors see the subject
as rather complicated. In fact, the chapter does become rather intricate. Still, authors make such subjects rather easy and broach science in a light philosophical manner. While their work entitled
Figments of Reality is rather intricate but written in an easy to read fashion, the notions integrated are things that many people take for granted. When embarking on reading this
book, the reader should beware that nothing should be taken for granted. Everything is challenged. Authors begin by addressing ideas about the universe, how it started and how people perceive
their own. The work goes back and forth, at least in the beginning, and asks the important questions such as how did the world begin, and why there are cultural
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