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Out of Our Minds - What We Think and How We Came to Think It (Hardcover)
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Out of Our Minds - What We Think and How We Came to Think It (Hardcover)
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'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and
polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and
its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to
see that which is not there - is the startling ability that has
fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As
a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion
the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of
science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy and history,
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting
tales of our imaginative leaps. Through groundbreaking insights in
cognitive science, he explores how and why we have ideas in the
first place, providing a tantalising glimpse into who we are and
what we might yet accomplish. Fernandez-Armesto shows that bad
ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest
recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of
Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world;
and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat.
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