This Time It's NOT Personal Book by Sam Hicken Ph D
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This Time It's NOT Personal

This Time It's NOT Personal


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If you've ever wondered how you came to be peering out of your singular set of eyeballs, enjoying (or not) your unique existence, science has answers. Evidence stretches from the Big Bang to the here and now, and what it shows is that personal identity is a gene-induced sensation, an evolutionarily advantageous self-narrative, a fake ID. It's a misperception that Einstein labeled "an optical illusion of consciousness."

Although we may not act like it, each of us is made of stardust. Supernovae blasted every one of our atoms into space, where some congealed into life-spawning planets. On Earth, brute matter stumbled over two critical thresholds, from inorganic gunk to organic goo, and from organic goo to living glop (you and I are proof enough). At that point, evolution via natural selection took over. Whenever organisms propagate in differential number based on expedient attributes, some will preponderate while others fade. What else could happen? A conga line? We're here because our ancestors were good at reproducing.

An earthworm's sense of self registers slim to none, and though dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror they rarely write memoirs. Only among humans is self-fascination a number one pastime (social media is proof enough). THIS TIME IT'S NOT PERSONAL lays out how and why that happened, where it might lead, what we can do about it, and why we should. It's a scientific self-help book packed with humor and scholarship.
About the Author: Sam Hicken, Ph.D. has received two national awards for research related to the psychology of computer use. His 1991 doctoral dissertation was designated best in its field. He's been a professor, Director of Informatics for a cutting edge biotechnology company, and a consultant to the Infectious Diseases Division of the New Mexico State Health Department. His work spans computer science, cognitive psychology, and molecular biology, plus he's authored dozens of computer databases and two pieces of commercial mathematics software. (EasyQuant was one of the first simple-to-use statistics programs for personal computers.) He currently writes scientific and other fact-based humor.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781502892591
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 372 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1502892596
  • Publisher Date: 26 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 196
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Why Science Says Get over Yourself
  • Width: 170 mm


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