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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Humanity's greatest strength-and fatal flaw-is pattern-seeking. The Pattern-Seeking Ape reveals our species as carbon-based Rorschach tests, projecting evolutionary algorithms onto an indifferent universe to create actionable "reality." Philosophical anthropologist Allen Schery names this universal cognitive mechanism the Primate Principle: ancestral sentinel awareness evolved into modern ideologues, wielding godlike abstraction power constrained by Pleistocene blinders.From Plato's cave shadows to quantum woo peddlers, Schery traces the double-edged sword of neural pattern detection. This cognitive superpower birthed cumulative culture-science, mathematics, symphonies-yet equally fuels tribal bloodletting, market panics, apocalyptic cults. Why do billions embrace mutually exclusive "truths"? Because neural architecture ruthlessly prioritizes coherence over accuracy, binding societies through shared fictions far more effectively than sterile facts ever could.Christianity's thousand-year cognitive drift-from apocalyptic sect to imperial stabilizer-perfectly mirrors twenty-first-century political polarization. What began as John's Patmos visions warning of imminent eschaton mutated through Constantinian realpolitik into throne-and-altar symbiosis. Today's red/blue tribal encampments follow identical evolutionary logic: pattern override through memetic drift.Schery surgically dissects the mechanism: Evolutionary Roots: Paleolithic hunter-gatherer "sentinel awareness" generated existential anxiety, birthing proto-religious pattern-making as anxiety buffer.Cognitive Traps: Confirmation bias evolved as adaptive signal filter; digital algorithms now amplify it into weaponized echo chambers.Cultural Drift: Ideas mutate like genes-Christianity's eschatological deadline quietly expires, replaced by eternal-reward reinsurance scheme. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Pattern Seeking Ape | Allen Schery | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Brooklyn Bridge Books | EAN 9781968950019 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.