| |  | Author: Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
Buy Used: $49.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 768469
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
ISBN: 0394524721
Dewey Decimal Number: 150.19
EAN: 9780394524726
ASIN: 0394524721
Publication Date: March 1982
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 remarkable until the end... May 27, 2000
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
....where Koestler's solution for global conflict is so patently chemical that one is left stupefied that such a brilliant and creative mind could arrive at it.
 Extremely interesting January 21, 2000
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Masterful in scope. An excellent discussion of the pitfalls of Behaviorism and the many facets of biology, anthropology, and evolution. Food for thought throughout. In addition to the other information in this book I believe you might find it to be an excellent foundation for, and springboard to, the hypothesis of formative causation that is explained in Rupert Sheldrake's later book "The Presence of the Past," which fits together nicely with Ghost and fills in many blanks.
breathtaking October 22, 1997
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
it is a solution to the problems of social anthropology giving a pattern that describes and (!) explains social networks. The problem of Koestler is very similar to the problem of cannabis: Cannabis is kept down by the oil-industrie, Koestler by the establishment of scientists and politics. For several reasons: First he argues against the human being a machine (Skinner) and then he looks for ways out of schizophysiology, for drugs balancing the older emotional brain with the new analytical thinking neocortex. Goleman should have read him. In the years after Ghost in The Machine he looked for drugs together with T. Leary and became leading person in the PSI-society, more reasons to keep his ideas down. Nevertheless, holism is a great theory that can be applied even in the communitarism debate and is so lively written, that other scientists had to be annoyed!
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