



Cognitive science explains how the human brain relies on the intelligence and knowledge of others in order to overcome its shortcomings of being error prone, irrational, and often ignorant.Ĭlear, James. Ignorance and the community of knowledge - What we know - Why we think - How we think - Why we think what isn't so - Thinking with our bodies and the world - Thinking with other people - Thinking with technology - Thinking about science - Thinking about politics - The new definition of smart - Making people smart - Making smarter decisions - Appraising ignorance and illusion. The knowledge illusion : why we never think alone. Wilson, discusses how human creativity has evolved. long-held assumptions about literature and its purpose"-Provided by publisher. novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over a lifetime of critical reading - from Leopardi, Dickens and Chekhov, to Woolf, Lawrence and Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Jonathan Franzen, Peter Stamm, and many others - to overturn. Where I'm reading from : the changing world of books.
