The Inner Eye Social Intelligence in Evolution [Paperback]

Where does consciousness come from? What is it? Where is 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 the philosophical and scientific puzzle that has fascinated him ever since: the problem of how a human being or animal can know what it is like to be itself.The Inner Eyedescribes where these original speculations led: to Humphrey's now celebrated theories of the 'social function of intellect' and of human beings as natural born 'mind-readers'. Easy to read, adorned with Mel Calman's brilliant illustrations, passionately argued, yet never less than scientifically profound, this book remains the best introduction to new thinking about 'theory of mind' and its implication for human social life.

Introduction
1. Behind Appearances
2. Natural Psychologists
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. The Inner Eye
5. Is There Anybody There?
6. Sentimental Education
7. A Book at Bedtime?
8. Other People's Dreams
9. Where are We Going?
10. Epilogue

Covers topics such as the development of consciousness in

animals, and what causes humans to commit atrocities. School for Social Research, New York, and also Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. His books includeConsciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind(OUP, 1983), andA History of the Mind: SoulSearching(Chatto & Windus, 1995), andThe Mind Made Flesh(OUP, 2001).