2024 the best of minds review
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"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange Everything
Markingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,editor John Brockman delivers a cutting-edge master class covering everythingyou need to know about The Mind. With original contributions by theworld’s leading thinkers and scientists, including Steven Pinker, George Lakoff, Philip Zimbardo, V. S. Ramachandran, and others, The Mind offers aconsciousness-expanding primer on a fundamental topic. Unparalleled in scope,depth, insight and quality, Edge.org’s The Mind isnot to be missed.
ASIN : B004V51VJE
Publisher : Harper Perennial (August 16, 2011)
Publication date : August 16, 2011
Language : English
File size : 733 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 290 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 0062025848
Reviewer: W. E. Claburn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent with Only One Exception
Review: I found each of the first seventeen chapters of this book to be quite interesting and thought provoking. In some instances the authors introduced me to ideas new to me; in other instances they reminded me of notable facts that I had learned of previously but forgotten, or provided convincing explanations for previous observations. Chapter eighteen, on the other hand, was significantly disappointing. Many of the alleged facts that it claims to report were thoroughly contrary to a great deal of my personal observations and experience, the point of view for which the author preached (sic) was stale and shopworn, his attacks on some of the better minds of our time were distasteful, the questions that he posed were inadequately framed, and the conclusions arrived at were unconvincing. To me it has the smell of an attempt to ingratiate someone into the good graces of established social censors with an eye to the associated financial rewards. On the whole, the chapter would seem somewhat less out of place in a collection of rightest political campaign speeches than in its current context.The entirety of the rest of the book, however, was good enough to make me entirely satisfied with my purchase.
Reviewer: Placeholder
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A very good and informative book. I feel better just for reading it. I feel better just for reading it Thankyou. It was just a very understandable way of saying that the future is in the right direction.
Review: This was a very good and informative book I feel better just for reading it Thank you very much You have done well.
Reviewer: Michael Putman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Mind: Essays on brain, memory, and happiness
Review: Thoroughly enjoyable selection of essays by a variety of scientists. The volume moves back forth between my car and bedside nightstand. I chose to not take an ebook version for my Kindle and am glad I did. The essays are in readable chunks with often dense material on recent research. The researchers include material on themselves and how they proceeded with their research, questions they raised, doubts confronted but not always resolved, and frequent suggestions on where further research should go.
Reviewer: Kindle CusRaymond McConnelltomer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Three Stars
Review: Slow read, not exactly what I expected, seems to kump around the topic a bit, but interesting.
Reviewer: scottie sanchez ortiz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and...
Review: Awesome book, teaches allot about obviously the brain, on how it functions but mainly is a good book to start finding out about intelligence and how we perceive it.
Reviewer: Carlos Santana
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good
Review: This is a good compilation of the most relevant scientist of now-days; there's some really good essays about many interesting topics. Check it out.
Reviewer: Morsel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: love all the edge
Review: thought provoking in every essay. made me re-think my conceptions of many things related to the mind. love all the edge.org's publications.
Reviewer: bettye198
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: My husband who is a Doctor and teacher of all things cellular and holistic loves these books!!!
Reviewer: VeerJain
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Editor John Brockman is the curator of the Edge Question Series, who collaborates with great thinkers and scientists on a question every year.This is a quick read. The Mind is a similar book with the current state of findings of the mind topic. Steven Piner, Joseph Ledoux, Steven Rose, V.S. Ramachandran , Nicholas Humphrey, Philip Zimbardo, Martin Seligman, Stanislas Dehaene, Robert Sapolsky, Jonathan Haidt etc have contributed to this edition. If you are familiar with their work, you will realize that there can't be a better team.I loved this book.It is not written for religion/philosophy of mind readers. Familiarity with authors earlier work will help. Unlike the edge series, this book is shorter.
Reviewer: Dean P. D'souza
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: These books are fun and informative.
Reviewer: docread
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The mind remains an ambiguous term , a mental potpourri and a catchall that may appeal to the metaphysical" lumpers" by incorporating processes and phenomena as diverse as consciousness, memory, emotions,behaviour and even moral sense.This is reflected in the miscellaneous collection of articles,interviews and lectures transcripts from edge.org. For those with eclectic tastes dipping in and out should prove a stimulating and entertaining experience.The writing is authoritative without being too technical and offers an undemanding read.Despite the relatively modest size of the book, the wide range of material it covers could fill a library of specialist subjects.There are mainstream topics like the computational theory of the mind( Pinker),the metaphor- using embodied mind theory ( Lakoff),the relevance of mirror neurones to human development and historical evolution(Ramachandran),the evolutionary aspects of emotions and their unconscious nature(Ledoux), the courtship-centred view of evolution(Miller).However the more esoteric topics are even more fascinating.Take for instance the story of the Toxoplasmosis parasite manipulation of the rats and human brains by interfering with their Dopamine system thus inducing reckless behaviour , or how personality is influenced by birth order and the contrast effects between siblings, or the interesting hypothesis about the risk of autism linked to genetics when two " systemizers" have a child.Systemizers are overrepresented in occupations like engineering! Another fascinating article explains how normal moral and decent persons when exposed to the appropriate socio psychological circumstances can easily succumb to institutional evil doing exemplified by the abusive behaviour which took place recently in Abu Ghraib prison.With such a diverse array of insightful studies this collection provides a welcome introduction to the recent findings and cutting edge theories in evolutionary psychology and cognitive sciences.
Reviewer: Dr Santosh Pai. Manipal
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: John Brockmans choice of the Edge question about the mind. In spite of advanced technology like FMRI,etc its still difficult to explain and locate the mind.The function of the Brain is more than the sum of its parts." Know thyself " is a popular philosophical advice but it is still beyond the reach of scintific expermintation.Some day we may sove the problem or we may not..
Reviewer: BW
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good read