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Monday, February 5, 2024

NEW BOOK ALERT: The Evolution of Human Motivations: An AI-Illustrated Odyssey by John V. Wylie MD

 





THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN
 MOTIVATIONS BY JOHN V. WYLIE



This is, perhaps, the first serious book for a general audience to be illustrated by AI. The capacity of AI to clearly illustrate complex ideas with breathtaking detail and beauty is truly remarkable. Each paragraph of the text was used as a unique prompt, guiding the advanced AI systems (Chat GPT-4 and DALL-E-3) to serve as my “science illustrator in earth tones.” This creative endeavor has been influenced by my perspective as a visual thinker but is firmly rooted in scientific literature. It embodies my ideas about the relevance of mental illness to human evolution, ideas that have evolved over 50 years of contemplation.

As a seasoned psychiatrist, I offer a unique perspective on the origins of our deepest motivations. Join me on a visually phantasmagorical journey backed up by mainstream science tracing our motivational roots from the earliest social interactions of our primate ancestors, through the crucial developments of our hominin forebears, to the complex emotional landscape of modern 
Homo sapiens.

JohnWylie holds a BA in history from Yale, an MD from Columbia, and completed a psychiatric residency at Georgetown University. Dr. Wylie was a founding member of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and has had a longstanding interest in the relationship between mental illness and human evolution.


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