Runaway Species (eBook)

How Human Creativity Remakes the World

Anthony Brandt, David Eagleman (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
304 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
9780857862099 (ISBN)

Infos

Our relentless drive to create makes us unique among living creatures. What is special about the human brain that enables us to innovate? Why don't cows choreograph dances? Why don't squirrels build elevators to their treetops? Why don't alligators invent speedboats?Weaving together the arts and sciences, neuroscientist David Eagleman and composer Anthony Brandt explore the need for novelty, the simulation of possible futures, and the social components that drive the inventiveness of our species. Taking us on a tour of human creativity from Picasso to concept cars to umbrellas to lunar travel, Brandt and Eagleman explore the cognitive software that generates new ideas, and illuminate the key facets of a creative mentality. Through understanding our ability to innovate - our most profound, mysterious, and deeply human capacity - we can meet the challenge of remaking our constantly shifting world.

Autor

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and he is also the author of the internationally bestselling books Sum and Incognito. He is the writer and presenter of the companion BBC television series The Brain. www.eagleman.com @davideagleman Anthony Brandt is an internationally acclaimed composer and a Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. His musical output includes two chamber operas and works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, dance, theater, film, and television. He is also Artistic Director of the award-winning new music ensemble Musiqa. www.anthonybrandt.net

Rezensionen

Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness

Mind-blowing revelations abound

Bringing a storyteller's articulate and fluid narrative to a scientist's quest, Eagleman dances across an incredible spectrum of issues

The posterboy of neuroscience with ideas that will stretch your mind

David Eagleman is a brilliant neuroscientist, a bestselling author and a man of enormous discernment

David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun

A shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing

Entertaining and profound: page-turning neuroscience from a bit of a genius

Popular science at its best

A fun read by a smart person for smart people . . . It will attract a new generation to ponder their inner workings

Eagleman provides an excellent overview of the workings of our most vital organ

Appealing and persuasive

David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive

The rock star of neuroscience

Essential and timely . . . a smart, captivating book that will give you a prefrontal workout

The unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2017
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: A Brief History of Time • Allan Ropper • anthony brandt • Behavioural theory • Blink • Creaticity, Inc. • Creativity • Daniel Kahneman • Daniel Levitin • David Eagleman • Dean Burnett • Dr Danny Penman • Ed Catmull • how we decide • Incognito • Jonah Lehrer • Malcolm Gladwell • Mindfulness for Creativity • Musicophilia • Neuroscience • Neurotribes • Oliver Sacks • outliers • Popular Philosophy • popular psychology • Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole • sapiens • Stephen Hawking • sum • the Brain • The Idiot Brain • The Innovation Manifesto • the man who mistook his wife for a hat • The mind • The Organised Mind • thinking fast and slow • V. S. Ramachandran • Yuval Noah Harari
• ISBN-13: 9780857862099 / 9780857862099