A review by jjupille
The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler

challenging medium-paced

3.5

Act of Creation is one of my favorite books. This one provides more foundation and more scaffolding around that one, especially as it relates to the nature of hierarchic systems and a logic of paedmorphosis (step back to leap forward). A trusted friend finds his account of evolution a little too Lamarckian, but I found it pretty persuasive. The last part, on schizophysiology as why we are so fucked, is fascinating. He goes off the rails in several places, IMO, but I just love reading Koestler.