THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Robert Ornstein
Prentice Hall, 1992

LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Learn how the mind “evolved” the way it has
• Determine how rational the mind is
• Explore the “central mystery of the mind”
• Examine the basic relationships of the brain, body and nervous system
• Review Darwinian views on biological evolution and “fitness”
• Review brain-size knowledge of early humans, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon, and how this applies to current brain studies
• Learn what “flexibility” of the brain means to the evolution of the mind
• Understand the connection of stress and brain development
• Understand the growth of the brain from infants to adulthood
• Learn what “neural selection” means
• Study the role of consciousness in directing behavior
• Review research on memory
• Learn what the author calls “mind shifts”

Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., President of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, is the author of 20 books on mind, brain, and health including THE RIGHT MIND, MULTIMIND, NEW WORLD NEW MIND, THE HEALING BRAIN, and THE ROOTS OF THE SELF.

14 CE credits; 305 pages

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