The Resource NonZero : the logic of human destiny, Robert Wright
NonZero : the logic of human destiny, Robert Wright
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The item NonZero : the logic of human destiny, Robert Wright represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.
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- Summary
- "At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded - and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless." "Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games - Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction; the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity." "Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- xii, 435 pages
- Contents
-
- The ladder of cultural evolution
- The way we were
- Add technology and bake for five millennia
- The invisible brain
- War: what is it good for?
- The inevitability of agriculture
- The age of chiefdoms
- The second information revolution
- Civilization and so on
- Our friends the barbarians
- Dark Ages
- The inscrutable Orient
- Modern times
- And here we are
- New world order
- Degrees of freedom
- The cosmic context
- The rise of biological non-zero-sumness
- Why life is so complex
- The last adaptation
- Non-crazy questions
- You call this a god?
- Isbn
- 9780679758945
- Label
- NonZero : the logic of human destiny
- Title
- NonZero
- Title remainder
- the logic of human destiny
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Wright
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded - and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless." "Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games - Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction; the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity." "Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- BKL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wright, Robert
- Dewey number
- 303.4
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GN360
- LC item number
- .W75 2001b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Social evolution
- Human evolution
- History
- Cultural Evolution
- History
- Évolution sociale
- Homme
- Histoire
- history (discipline)
- Human evolution
- Social evolution
- History
- Evolution
- Soziale Evolution
- Evolutie
- Menselijk bestaan
- Zin (filosofie)
- Label
- NonZero : the logic of human destiny, Robert Wright
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-418) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The ladder of cultural evolution -- The way we were -- Add technology and bake for five millennia -- The invisible brain -- War: what is it good for? -- The inevitability of agriculture -- The age of chiefdoms -- The second information revolution -- Civilization and so on -- Our friends the barbarians -- Dark Ages -- The inscrutable Orient -- Modern times -- And here we are -- New world order -- Degrees of freedom -- The cosmic context -- The rise of biological non-zero-sumness -- Why life is so complex -- The last adaptation -- Non-crazy questions -- You call this a god?
- Control code
- ocm46326182
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- xii, 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679758945
- Lccn
- 99040859
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)46326182
- Label
- NonZero : the logic of human destiny, Robert Wright
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-418) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The ladder of cultural evolution -- The way we were -- Add technology and bake for five millennia -- The invisible brain -- War: what is it good for? -- The inevitability of agriculture -- The age of chiefdoms -- The second information revolution -- Civilization and so on -- Our friends the barbarians -- Dark Ages -- The inscrutable Orient -- Modern times -- And here we are -- New world order -- Degrees of freedom -- The cosmic context -- The rise of biological non-zero-sumness -- Why life is so complex -- The last adaptation -- Non-crazy questions -- You call this a god?
- Control code
- ocm46326182
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- xii, 435 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679758945
- Lccn
- 99040859
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)46326182
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