How Brains Think Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
| Other author | Calvin, William H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Basic Books New York : Perseus Books Group [Distributor] |
| Description | 192 p. 20.400 x 013.500 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation If you are good at finding the one right answer to multiple-choice questions, you're smart. But intelligence is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them, or if you're trying to speak a sentence that you've never spoken before. As Jean Piaget said, intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do, when all the standard answers are inadequate. This analysis tries to fathom how our inner life evolves from one topic to another, as we create and reject alternatives. Ever since Darwin, we have known that elegant things can emerge (indeed, self-organize) from simpler beginnings. The emergence of new ideas works much like the immune response or the evolution of a new animal species, except that the brain can turn the Darwinian crank a lot faster, on the time scale of thought and action. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780465072781 |
| ISBN | 046507278X (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780465072781 |
| Stock number | 00003283 |
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