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How Brains Think - Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now by William H. Calvin
Category: No Category | Series: Science Masters Ser.
If you're good at finding the one right answer to life's multiple-choice questions, you're "smart." But "intelligence" is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them; or if you're trying to speak a sentence that you've never spoken bef ...Show more
How Brains Think - The Evolution of Intelligence by William H. Calvin
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What constitutes consciousness or intelligence? This is a question that has proved to philosophers to be an intellectual dead-end. Now William Calvin, by looking closely at animal and human intelligence and a wide range of evolutionary evidence, has broken new ground that will help us understand mental ...Show more
Human Brain - A Guided Tour by Susan Greenfield
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Locked away in its casing of skull bone, the brain remains a tantalising mystery, despite astounding progress in brain research. This book begins by exploring the different regions of the brain and goes on to examine how certain functions are accomodated in the brain. It looks at how the basic building ...Show more
Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Greenfield
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters
How did a single genesis event create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble - here on Earth, and perhaps on other worlds - into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? This book describes the recent avalanche of discoveries about the universe's fund ...Show more
Just Six Numbers - The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe by Martin J. Rees
Category: No Category | Series: Science Masters Ser.
How did a single "genesis event” create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble--here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds--into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe?This book describes new discoveries and ...Show more
Kinds of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett (Read by)
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What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? The first question is about what exists and the second is about our knowledge. The aim of Kinds of Minds is to answer these questions, in general outline, and to show why these two questions have to be answered together. What exists is one thing. What w ...Show more
Kinds of Minds - Towards an Understanding of Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
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Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
Category: No Category | Series: Science Masters Ser.
What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? The first question is about what exists and the second is about our knowledge. The aim of Kinds of Minds is to answer these questions, in general outline, and to show why these two questions have to be answered together. What exists is one thing. What w ...Show more
Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart
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Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of ...Show more
Nature's Numbers - Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe by Ian Stewart
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of ...Show more
River Out Of Eden by Richard Dawkins
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A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated informa ...Show more