NONZERO THE LOGIC OF HUMAN DESTINY  By  ROBERT WRIGHT

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§ Introduction PART I: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND § 1. The Ladder of Cultural Evolution § 2. The Way We Were § 3. Add Technology and Bake for Five Millennia § 4. The Invisible Brain § 5. War: What Is It Good For? § 6. The Inevitability of Agriculture § 7. The Age of Chiefdoms § 8. The Second Information Revolution § 9. Civilization and So On § 10. Our Friends the Barbarians § 11. Dark Ages § 12. The Inscrutable Orient § 13. Modern Times § 14. And Here We Are § 15. New World Order § 16. Degrees of Freedom PART II: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ORGANIC LIFE § 17. The Cosmic Context § 18. The Rise of Biological Non-zero-sumness § 19. Why Life Is So Complex § 20. The Last Adaptation PART III: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY § 21. Non-crazy Questions § 22. You Call This a God? § Appendix I: On Non-zero-sumness § Appendix II: What Is Social Complexity?

In a widely circulated e-mail to Andrew Sullivan, who linked to the Beliefnet article on his blog andrewsullivan.com, Dennett wrote: “Wright misinterprets his own videoclip (I am grateful that it is available uncut on his website, so that everybody can see for themselves). All I agreed to was that IF natural selection had the properties of embryogenesis (or "an organism's maturation"), it would be evidence for a higher purpose. But I have always insisted that evolution by natural selection LACKS those very properties. And I insisted on that in the earlier portions of the videoclip.” For Robert Wright’s reply, click here.