Terrence W. Deacon is a professor of biological anthropology and neuroscience and the chair of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of The Symbolic Species and Incomplete Nature, he lives near Berkeley, California.
"Contains many rewarding thoughts about life and mind and their
place in nature." -- Nature
"Unprecedentedly comprehensive. . . . Imagine the consequences for
science and society of having a physical explanation for
functional, meaningful and conscious behavior no less scientific
and accessible than our explanation for lightning. I believe Deacon
provides just that." -- Psychology Today
"In his approach to the question of how sentience emerged from
'dumb' and 'numb' matter, Mr. Deacon mobilizes some radically new
ideas." -- Wall Street Journal
"A profound shift in thinking that in magnitude can only be
compared with those that followed upon the works of Darwin and
Einstein." -- Robert E. Ulanowicz, author of A Third Window:
Natural Life beyond Newton and Darwin
"This is a work of science and philosophy at the cutting edge of
both that seeks to develop a complete theory of the world that
includes humans, our minds and culture, embodied and emerging in
nature." -- Bruce H. Weber, coauthor of Darwinism Evolving
"A stunningly original, stunningly synoptic book. With Autogenesis,
Significance, Sentience, seventeen insightful and integrated
chapters turn our world upside down and finally, as in the Chinese
proverb, lead us home again to a place we see anew. Few ask the
important questions. Deacon is one of these." -- Stuart Kauffman,
author of Investigations
"[Deacon] demonstrates how systems that are intrinsically
incomplete happen to be alive and meaning-making. The crux of
life-and meaning-is solved. It was worthwhile to wait for this
book. The twenty-first century can now really start." -- Kalevi
Kull, professor, Department of Semiotics, Tartu University
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