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Chargement... How Intelligence Happens (édition 2010)par John Duncan
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Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on earth. It builds sprawling cities, vast cornfields, coffee plantations, and complex microchips; it takes us from the atom to the limits of the universe. Understanding how brains build intelligence is among the most fascinating challenges of modern science. How does the biological brain, a collection of billions of cells, enable us to do things no other species can do? In this book John Duncan, a scientist who has spent thirty years studying the human brain, offers an adventure story-the story of the hunt for basic principles of human intelligence, behavior, and thought. Using results drawn from classical studies of intelligence testing; from attempts to build computers that think; from studies of how minds change after brain damage; from modern discoveries of brain imaging; and from groundbreaking recent research, Duncan synthesizes often difficult-to-understand information into a book that will delight scientific and popular readers alike. He explains how brains break down problems into useful, solvable parts and then assemble these parts into the complex mental programs of human thought and action. Moving from the foundations of psychology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience to the most current scientific thinking, How Intelligence Happens is for all those curious to understand how their own mind works. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Many current popular science books suffer from being written not by scientists embedded in the field but journalists, and thus are filled with inaccuracies or only a superficial understanding of the topic. Others are filled with unsupported hyperbolae. How Intelligent Happens is in some ways the antithesis of those books, since John Duncan is a world leader in the neuroscience of intelligence, and his scholarly knowledge and authority oozes from every page, strongly enhanced by his honesty about the strength - or weakness - of certain results, even from his own lab. You constantly feel that you are hearing from a very bright scientist at the cutting edge of the topic.
The style, especially at the start, is extremely accomplished, rather literary, while for the meat of the book is still always sharp and accurate, to match his thinking. There are regular anecdotes, some very funny, and a fun smattering of references from fiction and television to illustrate his arguments.
This is a marvellously clear, highly focused account of what intelligence is from the point of view of mind and brain - it achieves this goal brilliantly and is one of the best popular science books I've read in a long time. ( )