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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--And Shape It

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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--And Shape It - Reese, Byron
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"Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? In Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think, Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in. Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share ...

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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--And Shape It 2022, Benbella Books

ISBN-13: 9781637741344

Hardcover