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    Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity
    Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity
    Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity
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    Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity

    By Robert W. Fuller

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    This is a new and revised edition of Robert W. Fuller's analysis of how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal relationships, and our politics.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert W. Fuller
    Release dateJul 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301387250
    Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity
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    Robert W. Fuller

    ROBERT W. Fuller earned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authored Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. After serving as president of Oberlin College, he became a “citizen diplomat,” working toward improving international relations during the Cold War. During the 1990s, he served as board chair of the non-profit global corporation Internews and promoted democracy via free and independent media. When the Cold War ended with the collapse of the USSR, Fuller reflected on his career and realized that he had been, at different times in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into “Nobodyland” led him to identify rankism—abuse of the power inherent in rank—and ultimately to write SOMEBODIES AND NOBODIES: OVERCOMING THE ABUSE OF RANK. Three years later, he published a sequel that focuses on building a “dignitarian society” titled ALL RISE: SOMEBODIES, NOBODIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DIGNITY. With co-author Pamela Gerloff, he has also published DIGNITY FOR ALL: HOW TO CREATE A WORLD WITHOUT RANKISM. His most recent books are RELIGION AND SCIENCE: A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP?; GENOMES, MENOMES, WENOMES: NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN DIGNITY; THE WISDOM OF SCIENCE; BELONGING: A MEMOIR; THE THEORY OF EVERYBODY; and THE ROWAN TREE: A NOVEL.

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      Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes - Robert W. Fuller

      From Genome to Wenome:

      The Key to Universal Dignity

      ROBERT W. FULLER

      AUTHOR OF THE ROWAN TREE: A NOVEL

      Smashwords Edition, Copyright Robert W. Fuller 2013

      ISBN: 9781301387250

      Author web site: http://www.robertworksfuller.com

      Statement of philosophy: http://www.breakingranks.net

      Huffington Post column: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-fuller/

      All rights reserved. This ebook is the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied, or distributed for commercial purposes. Cover art by Jenny Bloomfield (1986).

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      For readers who want to explore dignity as a foundation for interpersonal and international relations, Robert W. Fuller's novel The Rowan Tree is now available as an ebook, a paperback, and an audiobook.

      As Arthurian myth sowed seeds of democracy, The Rowan Tree foretells an international culture of dignity. Anchored by two interlocking love stories, this unflinching novel of ideas brims with passionate quests, revelatory failures, and inextinguishable hope.

      The Rowan Tree is an inspirational tour de force that reaches from the rebellious American '60s into humanity’s global future. Soul-searching treks around the world intersect with campus revolution, basketball, math, ballet, and a destined rise to the White House. Love runs ahead of politics and lights the way for nations to follow.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Who Am I?

      Am I My Body?

      Am I My Mind?

      Am I My Witness?

      Are You a Home for Identities?

      Am I My Soul?

      Am I My Consciousness?

      Postmodernism's Coup de Grace to the Self

      Self Is a Misnomer

      The Co-Creation of Identity

      The Superself: Genome, Menome, and Wenome

      Recognition and Malrecognition

      What Is Man?

      What Kind of Computer Is the Brain?

      The Self Is Dead. Long Live the Superself.

      Bibliography

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Other Books by Robert W. Fuller

      Who Am I?

      Confusion about fundamental notions such as selfhood, identity, and consciousness distorts personal relationships, underlies ideological deadlock, aggravates partisan politics, and causes unnecessary human suffering.

      A better understanding of selfhood holds the promise of resolving perennial quarrels and putting us

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