Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness By Charles Foster NEW

Being a Human Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness by Charles Foster NEW\nPublisher \u200F : \u200E Profile BooksLanguage \u200F : \u200E EnglishHardcover \u200F : \u200E 400 pagesISBN-10 \u200F : \u200E 1788167171ISBN-13 \u200F : \u200E 9781788167178\nBeing a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness Hardcover\nWhat kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history.Foster begins his quest in a wood in Derbyshire with his son, shivering, starving and hunting, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that recognises the deep expanse of time when we understood ourselves as hunter-gatherers, indivisible from the non-human world, and when modern consciousness was first ignited. From there he travels to the Neolithic, when we tamed animals, plants and ourselves, to a way of being d.