"An honest attempt to compare and analyze the intelligence of humans, animals, and computers by an eminent cognitive scientist and long-time Press author"-- Provided by publisher.

Ciertamente esta etapa de la vida supone un equilibrio inestable entre cabeza, corazón y desarrollo de las capacidades propias. Los procesamientos cognitivos, emocionales y ejecutivos tienen diferente velocidad, y su maduración lleva diferente ritmo. Integrar estos sistemas y regularlos requiere estrategias adecuadas de control. Con un lenguaje sencillo, la autora introduce al lector en el complejo proceso de maduración del cerebro humano. La...

"The author provides a timely theological, scientific, and philosophical assessment of the human brain, displaying the many ways in which the gospel informs a distinctly Christian understanding of cognitive science"-- Provided by publisher.

La creatividad es una capacidad potencialmente presente, de las más variadas formas, en cada persona y culturas. Una poderosa herramienta para plantear y resolver problemas, diseñar el presente y pensar en el futuro. Ligada a todos los aspectos de la experiencia termina siendo un recurso infinito. Mientras más se recurre a la creatividad, más se perfecciona y se dispone de ella. En la historia de la humanidad la creatividad ha abarcado un amplio...

Drawing upon his own experience from the OR and the lab, a leading neurosurgeon and neuroscientist applies his cutting-edge research and findings to everyday life, offering readers expert insights and advice for achieving peak performance, improved memory, enhanced creativity, and beyond. This engrossing journey through science and medicine brings together key areas of the author's expertise-in surgery and science, cranial structure and the conscious...

Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is "The Hidden Half"-those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures-but we're idiots about how clever we really are. This entertaining and ingenious book reveals how in our quest to make the world more understandable, we lose sight of how unexplainable it often is. The result, from GDP figures to medicine,...

The majority of the world's population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in God, and a recent Gallup poll found that about three out of four Americans believe in some form of telepathy, déjà vu, ghosts, or past lives. Where does such supernatural thinking come from? Are we indoctrinated by our parents, churches, and media, or do such beliefs originate somewhere else? In...

Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations....

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think."

Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of "superintelligence" in which smart devices will exponentially extend human capacities. No longer just

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