People Are STRANGE: Material Engagement and the Creation of Self-Consciousness

A groundbreaking exploration of self-consciousness through material engagement theory, redefining what it means to be human in a constantly changing world.

The making of human consciousness and the question of self-becoming presents a remarkable complication along the continuum of sentient matter. Self-consciousness is an oddity that both unites humans with and differentiates them from other modes of conscious existence. Lambros Malafouris’s evocative proposal is that people are STRANGE, whi...