Philosophy is a Human Mind Painting

Philosophy is a Human Mind Painting

allen schery

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Brooklyn Bridge Books
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Sociedad y cultura: general
ISBN:
9781968950095
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Philosophy Is a Human Mind Painting by Allen Schery is a groundbreaking philosophical-anthropological masterpiece that redefines human cognition as active 'mind painting' rather than passive truth-discovery. Spanning five decades of interdisciplinary scholarship, Schery fuses neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, cultural theory, and historical analysis to reveal how ancestral survival wiring continues shaping modern worldviews-from cave art pattern-seeking to AI ethics debates.​Human brains evolved as Primate Pattern Painters, projecting adaptive narratives onto chaotic reality. Schery traces this from Paleolithic shamans reading animal tracks as cosmic signs, through medieval scholastics painting God onto Aristotelian logic, to today’s polarized tribes wielding identical cognitive tools. Climate denial and political cults both emerge from neural architecture prioritizing tribal coherence over empirical accuracy.​The book spans twenty chapters chronicling mind painting’s evolution: Paleolithic sentinel anxiety birthing symbolic expression, medieval divine canvas of scholastic synthesis, Enlightenment rationalism as refined brushwork, modernity’s pragmatism recognizing thought-as-tool, and digital age algorithmic echo chambers amplifying ancestral flaws.​Schery confronts 2026’s fractures-disinformation wars, identity silos, techno-upheaval-diagnosing each as cognitive drift: cultural memes mutating beyond environmental fitness, like Christianity’s eschatological deadline quietly expiring yet persisting as reinsurance scheme. No jargon-cloaked treatise, Schery draws from Tepehuan fieldwork, Templar esoterica, and Dodgers statistical obsession to weave empirical scalpel-work with visceral history. Quantum woo emerges from classical cognitive priors seeking mathematical elegance. Free will proves evolutionarily useful illusion. God becomes the Ultimate Pattern our restless apes crave.Hope emerges through meta-awareness: recognizing brushstrokes enables conscious repainting, transcending inheritance to craft adaptive realities amid accelerating complexity. Essential for scholars, cultural critics, policymakers navigating narrative-driven crises, Schery delivers surgical insight with storyteller’s grace. We remain cave-wall scribblers, but now with eyes open to the canvas. Seminal synthesis honoring Schery’s Pattern Seeking Ape legacy.

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