Shimon Edelman holds degrees in electrical engineering and in computer science and is presently Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. Having worked and published in computer and human vision and motor control, language acquisition and evolution, computational linguistics and psycholinguistics, brain imaging, theoretical and computational neuroscience, and computational social science, he is now primarily interested in consciousness in all its manifestations: from the basic sentience of an amoeba to critical and class consciousness of human selves in their natural social settings. His most recent book is Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths: A Realist's View of the Human Condition.

• Part I The Human Condition.- 1 ​Selfless Consciousness.- 2 Minimal Selves.- 3 Self-consciousness.- 4 Speech and Sign.- 5 Self and Society.- Part II The Roads To Freedom.- 6 Self-care.- 7 A World to Win.- Epilogue.

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Shimon Edelman holds degrees in electrical engineering and in computer science and is presently Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. Having worked and published in computer and human vision and motor control, language acquisition and evolution, computational linguistics and psycholinguistics, brain imaging, theoretical and computational neuroscience, and computational social science, he is now primarily interested in consciousness in all its manifestations: from the basic sentience of an amoeba to critical and class consciousness of human selves in their natural social settings. His most recent book is Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths: A Realist's View of the Human Condition.

• Part I The Human Condition.- 1 ​Selfless Consciousness.- 2 Minimal Selves.- 3 Self-consciousness.- 4 Speech and Sign.- 5 Self and Society.- Part II The Roads To Freedom.- 6 Self-care.- 7 A World to Win.- Epilogue.

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Shimon Edelman holds degrees in electrical engineering and in computer science and is presently Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. Having worked and published in computer and human vision and motor control, language acquisition and evolution, computational linguistics and psycholinguistics, brain imaging, theoretical and computational neuroscience, and computational social science, he is now primarily interested in consciousness in all its manifestations: from the basic sentience of an amoeba to critical and class consciousness of human selves in their natural social settings. His most recent book is Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths: A Realist's View of the Human Condition.

• Part I The Human Condition.- 1 ​Selfless Consciousness.- 2 Minimal Selves.- 3 Self-consciousness.- 4 Speech and Sign.- 5 Self and Society.- Part II The Roads To Freedom.- 6 Self-care.- 7 A World to Win.- Epilogue.

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