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Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983.

Title The ghost in the machine / by Arthur Koestler.

Publication Info.	New York : Macmillan, [1968]
	©1967

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	828.9 KOESTLER	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	150 K81	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction	828 KOESTLER	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	150 KOESTLER	Check Shelf

Edition	[1st American ed.].
Description	xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.
Contents	The poverty of psychology -- The chain of words and the tree of language -- The holon -- Individuals and dividuals -- Triggers and filters -- A memory for forgetting -- The helmsman -- Habit and improvisation -- The strategy of embryos -- Evolution: theme and variations -- Evoluation CTD: progress by initiative -- Evolution CTD: undoing and re-doing -- The glory of man -- The ghost in the machine -- The predicament of man -- The three brains -- A unique species -- The age of climax -- Appendix I: General properties of open hierarchical systems (O.H.S.) -- Appendix II: On not flogging dead horses.
Subject	Genetic psychology.
	Human evolution.
	Social Change. (DNLM)D012922
	Psychology, Social. (DNLM)D011593
	Genetic psychology. (OCoLC)fst00940076
	Human evolution. (OCoLC)fst00963030
	Anthropologie (DE-588)4002230-4
	Menschheit (DE-588)4169436-3
	Überleben (DE-588)4117273-5
	Evolution (Biology) -- Miscellanea.
	Psychobiology.
	Psychology -- Philosophy.
	Psychology.
	Psychophysiology.
Other Form:	Online version: Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983. Ghost in the machine. [1st American ed.]. New York, Macmillan [1968, ©1967] (OCoLC)571320267

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