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  • Truly Human Enhancement

    A Philosophical Defense of Limits

    door Nicholas Agar ...
    Serie series Basic Bioethics
    A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more ... Meer lezen

    29,56 €

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  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    door Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Meer lezen

    10,79 €

  • This Will Change Everything

    Ideas That Will Shape the Future

    door John Brockman ...
    Serie Boek 6 - Edge Question Series
    “This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and SteelEditor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About and What Have You Changed Your Mind About with This Will Change Everything. Brockman asks 150 ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back

    The Evolution of Minds

    "A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —NatureHow did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent ... Meer lezen

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  • Moral Tribes

    Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

    door Joshua Greene ...
    “Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston GlobeOur brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s tribes into a ... Meer lezen

    4,55 €

  • A Failure of Nerve

    Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (10th Anniversary, Revised Edition)

    An invitation and guide for leaders “to cast a courageous and imaginative vision, to lead resiliently, and to be present and steady in times of deep anxiety.”Ed Friedman’s genius was to see the individual in the family in the larger group, bringing the wisdom of his experience as a therapist and rabbi to the field of organizational leadership.A timeless bestseller, A Failure of Nerve still ... Meer lezen

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  • Kluge

    The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

    door Gary Marcus ...
    Psychology professor Gary Marcus explores how evolution has affected—and altered—the functioning of the human brain in Kluge.A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceHow is it that we can recognize photos from our high school yearbook decades later, but cannot remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday? And why are we inclined to buy more cans of soup if the sign says Limit 12 Per Customer ... Meer lezen

    13,03 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Unschooled Mind

    How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

    door Howard Gardner ...
    Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author. ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Kinds Of Minds

    Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness

    Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were ... Meer lezen

    7,99 €

  • Homo Mysterious:Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature

    Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature

    door David P. Barash ...
    For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects of being human. Homo Mysterious examines a number of these evolutionary mysteries, exploring things ... Meer lezen

    17,99 €

  • This Idea Is Brilliant

    Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

    door John Brockman ...
    Serie Boek 23 - Edge Question Series
    Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by today’s most innovative mindsWhat scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org (“The world’s smartest website”—The Guardian), presented to 205 of the world’s most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrum—award-winning ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • Summa Technologiae

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    door Stanis aw Lem ...
    Serie Boek 40 - Electronic Mediations
    The Polish writer Stanisław Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the ... Meer lezen

    16,21 €