Cognitive Gadgets - The Cultural Evolution of ThinkingPevná vazba
Cognitive Gadgets - The Cultural Evolution of ThinkingPevná vazba "This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences... What accounts for our capacity to…
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Cognitive Gadgets - The Cultural Evolution of ThinkingPevná vazba
"This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences... What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the minds of others, to gossip, read, tell stories about the past, and imagine the future? Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the year."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionHow did human minds become so different from those of other animals?
One explanation widely accepted today is that humans have special cognitive instincts. These questions are not new: they have been debated by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, evolutionists, and neurobiologists over the course of centuries. Unlike other living animal species, we are born with complicated mechanisms for reasoning about causation, reading the minds of
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