A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all time How does the brain--a three-pound wrinkly mass--give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as di...(展开全部)

作者 罗杰·彭罗斯（ROGER PENROSE）是牛津大学劳斯鲍尔荣誉数学教授。 艾伯纳·西蒙尼（Abner Shimony）是波士顿大学哲学和物理学荣誉教授。 南希·卡特莱特（Nancy Cartwright）是伦敦政治经济学院哲学、逻辑与科学方法教授。 史蒂芬·霍金 （Stephen Hawking）是剑桥大学卢卡斯数学教授。 编者 马尔科姆·朗盖尔（Malcolm Longair）是剑桥大学杰克逊自然哲学教授。 译者 阳曦，自由撰稿人、译者，毕业于北京航空航天大学宇航学院，曾从事航天研发工作。目前专注科普及幻想文学创作和翻译，《环球科学》、果壳网等知名媒体及新媒体长期合作译者，曾荣获“全国优秀科普作品”奖及全球华语科幻星云奖“最佳翻译小说”银奖，已出版译作《赶往火星》《元素的盛宴》《从一到无穷大》等。

Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and updates his current thinking in ...(展开全部)

The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture. Bui...(展开全部)

Are we “noble in reason”? Perfect, in God’s image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a “kluge,” a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- t...(展开全部)

Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in Gods image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a kluge, a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- that s...(展开全部)

Are we “noble in reason”? Perfect, in God’s image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a “kluge,” a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- t...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela) 瓦雷拉1946年生于智利，2001年5月2819病逝于巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物学家、认知科学家、哲学家和佛教静心修行者。他曾任巴黎法国国家科学研究中心的研究主任、巴黎综合理工大学的认知科学和认识论教授。瓦雷拉一生的主要著作包括Principles of Biological Autonomy(1979)、Autopoiesis and Cognition：The Realization of the Living(1980)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与汤普森和罗施合著)等。瓦雷拉是认知科学中生成认知研究纲领的主要倡导者...(展开全部)