How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence. Christopher Potter
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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014
Copyright © Christopher Potter 2014
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Contents
PART ONE: Materials and Instructions
Section 2: What can the matter be?
Section 4: Nothing → something → everything
Section 6: What is the universe?
Section 7: Evidence for the existence of an external world
Section 8: Evidence against the existence of an external world
Section 9: There is always something missing
Section 10: When the gene is no longer enough
Section 11: On tools and human evolution
Section 12: Being rather than making
Section 2: On the relationship between human beings and nature
Section 3: On the relationship between human beings and other animals
Section 4: On the relationship between human beings and other human beings
Section 6: On doing the right thing
Section 7: On the difficulty of being
Section 8: On dreams and doing nothing
Section 10: On faith, belief and truth