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Where have we come from? Where are we going? Do we have control over our own evolution? Our knowledge has soared to the planets and stars, plunged to the depths of the sea, probed invisible microbes, and learned from the mysterious atom. Ever on the verge of more innovation, we stand ready for amazing revelations in the fields of technology, cybernetics, electronics, laser studies, and newer areas still vague and nonexistent. With all this knowledge of the external world, however, we are strangers to our own internal selves. We are born with an instinctive system that is guided by genetically recorded instructions, collected through thousands of years of evolution. Unfortunately, these instincts try to manage us as if we were anthropoids living in the jungle. Can we control our behavior or are we bound by the instincts and conduct of our genetic inheritance? Fortunately, we are also born with the faculty of reasoning, a faculty that is often in conflict with our instinctive natures. By using reasoning, we can begin to affect our decisions and actions. And while instinct and reason struggle to gain control over our behavior, it is through this struggle that we are able to grow and learn to know ourselves. This book explores, analyzes, and gives form to a vast, little-known territory: the contents and functioning of our interior world, a world influenced by our organic, psychic conduct and our ability to reason with the conscious mind.

Author: Tessey, J M

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1940354528
Language: English
Pages: 268