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Exploring the genesis and power of human ideas.

"Out of Our Minds" plunges into the depths of human creativity and intellect. If your curiosity tickles you about the origins of our thinking and the ability to innovate, this book promises a comprehensive journey. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto offers a thought-provoking exploration that might change the way you view the world and our place within it. It celebrates our cognitive uniqueness and could be a perfect companion for moments of introspection about humanity's past and future potential.

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

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ISBN: 9781786077851
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Philosophy, History
Related Topics: Biology, History, Psychology, Anthropology
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A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the history of human mental life. To imagine—to see what is not there—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. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy, and history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps—from the first Homo sapiens to the present day. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, Fernández-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. 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. A masterful paean to the human imagination from a wonderfully elegant thinker, Out of Our Minds 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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Exploring the genesis and power of human ideas.

"Out of Our Minds" plunges into the depths of human creativity and intellect. If your curiosity tickles you about the origins of our thinking and the ability to innovate, this book promises a comprehensive journey. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto offers a thought-provoking exploration that might change the way you view the world and our place within it. It celebrates our cognitive uniqueness and could be a perfect companion for moments of introspection about humanity's past and future potential.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.