The Mind Made Flesh

A wide-ranging collection of the author's essays on consciousness, the evolution of the human mind, and medicine, religion, education, and art. Always provocative, Humphrey brings his fresh and critical mind to bear on social and cultural norms. He takes on bogus science (as in the placebo effect and multiple-personality disorders), religious education (which he sees as a key instrument in the oppression of children), and those who fail to appreciate how much of human consciousness is observably, even measurably, self-referential, self- justifying, self-serving, and self-deluding. TOC: PREFACE; 1 SELVES: Shakespeare and His Mother, Multiple Personality Disorder, Altruism; 2 FEELINGS: Consciousness, The Mind-Body Problem, The Privatization of Sensation; 3 DISCOVERIES: Mind, Cave Art and Autism, The Deformed; 4 PRETENCES: Supernatural Belief, Faith Healing, The Placebo Effect; 5 SEDUCTION: Parental Tyranny, Follow My Leader, Death in Tripoli; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.