The inner eye

摘要: Where does consciousness come from? What is it? it taking us? In 1971 Nicholas Humphrey spent three months at Dian Fossey's gorilla research centre in Rwanda. It was there, among the mountain gorillas that he began to focus on philosophical and scientific puzzle has fascinated him ever since: problem of how a human being or animal can know what like be itself. The Inner Eye describes where these original speculations led: Humphrey's now celebrated theories 'social function intellect' beings as natural born 'mind-readers'. Easy read, adorned with Mel Calman's brilliant illustrations, passionately argued, yet never less than scientifically profound, this book remains best introduction new thinking about 'theory mind' its implication for social life.