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product_id: 62300428
title: "The Ghost in the Machine"
brand: "arthur koestler"
price: "₱3473"
currency: PHP
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reviews_count: 13
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# The Ghost in the Machine

**Brand:** arthur koestler
**Price:** ₱3473
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Ghost in the Machine by arthur koestler
- **How much does it cost?** ₱3473 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

The Ghost in the Machine

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## Customer Reviews

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    The third section of the book is the most important part of the book
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2019*

In contrast to another comment posted here, I feel that it is clearly the third section of this encyclopedic, enlightening, edifying (and often witty) book that makes the greatest, gut-wrenching impact that continues to resonate long after the 1960's. This was not just the "spirit of the times" - look at the condition of the world today - essentially the violence and destruction have not changed.  If anything, the world is far worse off than when Koestler wrote this.Written in the most lucid language of the book, the third section finally addresses directly the millennia of continuous, uninhibited, murderous mass violence of homo sapiens against homo sapiens - a "unique species" in that its vastly superior intelligence does not seem, in the majority of its individuals, to inhibit irrational destruction of its own species. In fact, the still largely uptapped, ever-increasing intelligence renders this destructiveness more and more horribly dangerous - not only to our own species, but to all other species...and to our entire environment and ability to survive in it. None of this is true of any other species, except...Koestler makes the darkly humorous but factual observation that the only other species that have no inhibitions against killing their own kind are ants and rats - but their levels and ranges of destruction are hardly likely to increase exponentially as ours do.

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    Holons are the heart od the book
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2022*

Very interesting ideas, but the book really tends to beat around the bush and be repetitive

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    This is a very good book, and I am glad I have it ...
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2016*

This is a very good book, and I am glad I have it in my possession, but i have just got 2/3 into the book to realize that pages 114 and 115 are completely missing, and there does not seem to be any tell-tale evidence of it being ripped out, so I am wondering if it is just a defect of this copy.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-07*