Byron Reese
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--and Shape It
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--and Shape It
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We are different from other creatures on this planet because we can imagine the future and recall the past, allowing us to escape the perpetual present. Byron Reese's book "Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think" explores our history as an intelligent species, showing how this escape enabled us to share knowledge and predict the future.
Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 16 August 2022
Publisher: BenBella Books
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 his book, "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 knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and predict - and eventually master - the future. Thoughtful, witty, and compulsively readable, Reese unravels our history as an intelligent species in three acts: Act I: Ancient humans undergo "the awakening," developing the cognitive ability to mentally time-travel using language. Act II: In 17th-century France, the mathematical framework known as probability theory is born - a science for seeing into the future that we used to build the modern world. Act III: Beginning with the invention of the computer chip, humanity creates machines to gaze into the future with even more precision, overcoming the limits of our brains. A fresh new look at the history and destiny of humanity, readers will come away from "Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think" with a new understanding of what they are - not just another animal, but a creature with a mastery of time itself.
Weight: 465g
Dimension: 238 x 159 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781637741344
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