Toward Consilience

This book is a comprehensive effort to establish a framework for consilience - the unification of the natural and social sciences. Grounded in physics, molecular biology, and evolutionary neuroscience, Toward Consilience seeks to identify and trace the organic brain algorithms which, when replicated in our neural architecture, shape our human thought, behavior, and language. Drawing on the work of Edward O. Wilson, Paul MacLean, and others, Dr. Corey presents a significant and thought-provoking effort at understanding what makes us human.

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Establishes a framework for consilience, the unification of the natural and social sciences, grounded in physics, molecular biology, and evolutionary neuroscience. Seeks to identify and trace the organic brain algorithms which, when replicated in our neural architecture, shape human thought, behavior, and language. Defines the primary bioneurological or brain algorithm from the perspectives of physics and biology, and develops a second brain algorithm, setting out a model of behavior called the conflict systems neurobehavioral model. Examines the two brain algorithms as manifested in various theories of psychodynamics, and traces their expression as the foundation of western and eastern philosophy and mysticism, and in ethics, social theory, and language theory. Cory directs the Center for Behavioral Ecology, and teaches at San Jose State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)