The Knowledge Illusion
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The Knowledge Illusion
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Author : Steven Sloman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-03-14
The Knowledge Illusion written by Steven Sloman and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Psychology categories.
“The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker We all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us. We’re constantly drawing on information and expertise stored outside our heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, and the community with which we interact—and usually we don’t even realize we’re doing it. The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone, sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. The fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are so hard to change, and why individual-oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing things. The Knowledge Illusion contends that true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the community around us.
Lessons From An Optical Illusion
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Author : Edward M. Hundert
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995
Lessons From An Optical Illusion written by Edward M. Hundert and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a bold, modern recasting of the age-old nature-nurture debate, informed by revolutionary insights from brain science, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, linguistics, evolutionary biology, child development, ethics, and even cosmology.
Summary Of The Knowledge Illusion By Steven Sloman Philip Fernbach Why We Never Think Alone
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Author : Ctprint
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-10
Summary Of The Knowledge Illusion By Steven Sloman Philip Fernbach Why We Never Think Alone written by Ctprint and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-10 with categories.
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone By Steven Sloman & Philip Fernbach.::::::::::::::::::: Disclaimer: This bооk іѕ nоt mеаnt tо rерlасе thе оrіgіnаl bооk but tо ѕеrvе аѕ a companion tо іt.::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK: Thе Knоwlеdgе Illuѕіоn (2017) is аn іn-dерth еxрlоrаtіоn of thе human mіnd. It аrguеѕ against thе vіеw that іntеllіgеnсе is solely аn іndіvіduаl attribute, оffеrіng соmреllіng аrgumеntѕ fоr hоw our success as a species wоuld hаvе bееn impossible without a community of knоwlеdgе.::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THЕ AUTHОR: Stеvеn Slоmаn, a professor оf соgnіtіvе lіnguіѕtісѕ, tеасhеѕ аt Brown Unіvеrѕіtу. Hе іѕ аlѕо thе еdіtоr оf Cognition, a scientific journal dеdісаtеd tо thе ѕtudу of cognitive science. Phіlір Fеrnbасh іѕ аn аѕѕіѕtаnt рrоfеѕѕоr at thе University оf Cоlоrаdо, where hе teaches mаrkеtіng. Thеіr collaborative work hаѕ been fеаturеd іn thе New Yоrk Times, thе Atlantic and Slate, among оthеr рubl&
The Illusion Of Conscious Will
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Author : Daniel M. Wegner
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003-08-11
The Illusion Of Conscious Will written by Daniel M. Wegner and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-11 with Philosophy categories.
A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will—those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling. The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will.
The Illusion Of Doubt
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Author : Genia Schönbaumsfeld
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Illusion Of Doubt written by Genia Schönbaumsfeld and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
'The Illusion of Doubt' confronts one of the most important questions in philosophy - what can we know? The radical sceptic's answer is 'not very much' if we cannot prove that we are not subject to (permanent) deception, and shows that the radical sceptical problem is an illusion created by a mistaken picture of our evidential situation.
Summary Of Steven Sloman Philip Fernbach S The Knowledge Illusion
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Steven Sloman Philip Fernbach S The Knowledge Illusion written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z with Psychology categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The illusion of explanatory depth is the name given to the fact that people usually overestimate their understanding of how things work. It is based on the fact that people usually have little to say when asked to explain how a zipper works. #2 The illusion of explanatory depth is when people believe they understand something when they really don’t. It can be seen in the way people rate their knowledge of zippers, and it can be seen in people’s understanding of bicycles. #3 The students were asked to fill in the missing parts of the drawing. It was surprisingly difficult for them to do so. Many did not even get the correct picture, and chose pictures showing the chain around the front wheel as well as the back wheel, which would make it impossible to turn. #4 We overestimate how much we know, and we do this because we believe that we’re more ignorant than we think we are. We estimate the size of human memory on the same scale that is used to measure the size of computer memories.
The Happiness Illusion
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Author : Luke Hockley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-19
The Happiness Illusion written by Luke Hockley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-19 with Psychology categories.
The West has never been more affluent yet the use of anti-depressants is on the increase to the extent that the World Health Organisation has declared it a major source of concern. How has this state of affairs come about and what can be done? Television and advertising media seem to know. Wherever we look they offer countless remedies for our current situation - unfortunately none of them seem to work. The Happiness Illusion explores how the metaphorical insights of fairy-tales have been literalised and turned into commodities. In so doing, their ability to educate and entertain has largely been lost. Instead advertising and television sell us products that offer to magically transform the way we look, how we age, where we live –both in the city and the countryside, the possibility of new jobs, and so forth. All of these are supposed to make us happy. But despite the allure of ‘retail therapy’ modern magic has lost its spell. What then are the sources of happiness in our contemporary society? Through a series of fairy-tales The Happiness Illusion: How the media sold us a fairytale looks at topics such as age, gender, marriage and rom-coms, Nordic Noir and the representations of therapy on television. In doing so it explores alternative ways to relate to the world in a symbolic and less literal manner – it suggests that happiness comes by making sure we don’t fall under the spell of the illusionary promises of contemporary television and advertising. Instead, happiness comes from being ourselves – warts and all. This book will be of interest to Jungian academics, film, media and cultural studies academics, social psychologists and their students, as well as reaching out to those interested in fairy-tale studies, psychotherapists and educated cinema goers. Luke Hockley PhD, is Research Professor of Media Analysis, at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He is a practicing psychotherapist and is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). Luke is joint Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies (IJJS) and a member of the Advisory Board for the journal Spring and lectures widely. www.lukehockley.com Nadi Fadina is a media entrepreneur and a managing partner in an international film fund. She is involved in a variety of arts and media related projects, both in profit and non-profit spheres. She teaches Film Business in the University of Bedfordshire, however, her academic interests outreach spheres of business and cover ideology, Russian fairytales, sexuality, politics, anthropology, and cinema. www. nadi-fadina.com
Citizen Spectator
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Author : Wendy Bellion
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Citizen Spectator written by Wendy Bellion and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Art categories.
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.
The Illusion Of Knowledge The Paradigm Shift In Aging Research That Shows The Way To Human Rejuvenation
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Author : Harold Katcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-04
The Illusion Of Knowledge The Paradigm Shift In Aging Research That Shows The Way To Human Rejuvenation written by Harold Katcher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-04 with Health & Fitness categories.
In May 2020, the publication of a scientific paper on the rejuvenation of rats shook the foundations of the community that studies the possibility of undoing aging. An average epigenetic rejuvenation of 54% of the animals was reported in the article, in addition to the reversal of dozens of biochemical markers of old rats to values typical of young rats. The main developer of the treatment that led to these results was Dr. Harold Katcher, author of The Illusion of Knowledge. The reception of the specialized scientific community to the experiment was shock, with the phrase "it's too good to be true" repeated almost instinctively. Thus, Dr. Katcher decided to write this book, explaining in detail the foundations of his theory of aging and the evolutionary and biochemical bases of the mechanisms that determine the lifespan of different species. However, in this book, Dr. Katcher has done much more than address the strictly scientific part. By also conducting an in-depth analysis of the history of scientific ideas and humanity's relationship with the idea of immortality, he shows that it is no accident that he may have made the greatest discovery in human history.
Perception And Illusion
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Author : N.J. Wade
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-03-30
Perception And Illusion written by N.J. Wade and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-30 with Psychology categories.
Our contact with the world is through perception, and therefore the study of the process is of obvious importance and signi?cance. For much of its long history, the study of perception has been con?ned to natural- tic observation. Nonetheless, the phenomena considered worthy of note have not been those that nurture our survival—the veridical features of perception—but the oddities or departures from the common and c- monplace accuracies of perception. With the move from the natural world to the laboratory the oddities of perception multiplied, and they received ever more detailed scrutiny. My general intention is to examine the interpretations of the perc- tual process and its errors throughout history. The emphasis on errors of perception might appear to be a narrow approach, but in fact it enc- passes virtually all perceptual research from the ancients until the present. The constancies of perception have been taken for granted whereas - partures from constancies (errors or illusions) have fostered fascination.