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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How does the brain-a three-pound wrinkly mass-give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist Paul Bloom answers these questions and many more in Psych, his riveting new book about the science of the mind. Psych is an expert and passionate guide to the most intimate aspects of our nature,...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There's a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful animal species precisely because of our amazing, complex intelligence. All our unique gifts like language, math, and science do not make us happier or more "successful" (evolutionarily...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For all we hear of neuroscience's great advances, the field has generated more questions than answers. We know that the brain combines sensory input from all over your body into a single perception, but not how. We think brains "compute" in some sense, but we can't say what those computations are. We believe that the brain is organized as a hierarchy, with different pieces all working collaboratively to make a single model of the world. But we can...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A noted neuropsychiatrist presents a scholarly, interdisciplinary definition of the mind that shares insights into the potential of the self and human consciousness, discussing how the brain self-organizes to establish identity, connection, and well-being.
Author
Publisher
Kogan Page
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"IQ tests are increasingly being used as part of the job application process in various industries, including the government, armed forces, education, and industry and commerce. Written and compiled by IQ test experts, it contains 1000 practice questions organized into 25 tests, along with a simple guide to assessing performance. Working through the questions will help improve vocabulary and develop powers of calculation and logical reasoning. This...
16) The genius in all of us: why everything you've been told about genetics, talent, and IQ is wrong
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
19) Stringers
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A genius is abducted by an alien bounty-hunter for the location of a powerful inter-dimensional object. Trouble is, he can't remember a thing. One thing he knows is the location of the Chime. What it is or why it's important, he can't say. But this knowledge is about to get him in a whole heap of trouble, as a trash-talking, flesh construct bounty hunter is on his tail and looking to sell him to the highest bidder.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence-plant, animal, human, artificial-and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos"--
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings--beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in "artificial"...
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