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The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing. . - New Books - book review
Skeptical Inquirer, Sept-Oct, 2002 by Kendrick Frazier
The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing. Frank T. Vertosick, Jr. Harcourt, Inc., 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101. 2002. ISBN 0-15-100551-6. 353 pp. $26, hardcover. A neurosurgeon and writer poses intriguing questions about how we as humans perceive intelligence--our own and other living organisms'.
Defining intelligence as the general ability to store past experiences and to use that acquired knowledge to solve future problems, he rejects the notion that human intelligence is unique in the biological realm, or that it must be centered exclusively in the brain. In this examination of what he calls "brain chauvinism" he demonstrates how bacteria, immune systems, ant hills, even single cells all display intelligence in their struggles to survive in a changing world. And he argues that "bacterial populations don't mimic us, our brains mimic them."
COPYRIGHT 2002 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
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