Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological facultiesâ€”emotion, perception and reasonâ€”to shape theÂ history of human mental life."â€”TheÂ Wall Street Journal

To imagineâ€”to see what is not thereâ€”is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the picture in our minds.
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Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe FernÃ¡ndez-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leapsâ€”from the firstÂ Homo sapiensÂ to the present day.Â Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science,Â FernÃ¡ndez-Armesto explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalizing glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish.Â Unearthing historical evidence, he begins by reconstructing the thoughts of our Paleolithic ancestors to reveal the subtlety and profundity of the thinking of early humans.Â A masterful paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker,Â Out of Our MindsÂ 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.Â
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-07-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-07-02
Format	Kindle eBook

Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

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