written by Adam Leonard
Adam Leonard
Author of Man by Nature
Meet Adam Leonard
Adam Leonard is a software engineer (a.k.a. programmer,) a student of the life sciences, and a philosopher. Growing up in Altoona, Pennsylvania, his high school abilities in math and science led him to pursue an engineering career. When a major steel strike eliminated his summer job on the open hearth labor gang, he joined the Air Force, became a SAC navigator, saved money, and returned to college to complete a BS degree in Engineering Science at Penn State University.
As an engineer, he first worked in trajectory analysis (for orbital and planetary entry space vehicles) and then transitioned to programming computers to solve engineering problems and analyze and display engineering data. The transition was serendipitous, because humans are notoriously poor at the kind of logic required for programming, and programmers consequently spend much of their time “debugging”... figuring out why a complex program behaved the way it actually did instead of the way that had been expected; this turned out to be excellent training for figuring out why we, complex humans, behave the way we do instead of the way that’s expected.
Throughout his engineering years Adam’s inclination toward philosophy and his natural interest in the life sciences kept him constantly reading and studying to stay abreast of the ongoing discoveries in everything from anthropology to zoology. As a result, when neuroscientists studying the brain began to publish popular summaries of their work, Adam recognized that their findings provided the key “missing” data that would finally allow understanding Man’s behavior.
In his book, “Man by Nature: The Hidden Programming Controlling Human Behavior,” Adam describes this new and seminal brain research, shows how it enables hypothesizing a sweeping “Tribal Programming Theory of Human Behavior,” and considers the impact the new knowledge will have on Man’s quest to eventually live in peace.
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Man by Nature was made possible by the research and writings of neuroscientist Dr. Michael S. Gazzaninga. He is currently Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Center is “designed to be a catalyst for interdisciplinary study of the relationship of brain and mind.”
Introducing "Man by Nature" - The New Bestseller From One Of Today's Newest And Greatest Philosophers.
