¿De qué nos sirve ser tan listos?
A revealing journey through the brain, thinking, and the emotions with a great neuroscience educator.
Evolution has shaped the human mind to the point of making it one of the most powerful on Earth. However, our intelligence has many intricacies, consequences, anomalies, and extravagances. We have known for some time now that, far from being based on mathematical calculation, the decisions we make are at the service of the emotions. Perhaps this is why we are much less clever than we believe.
What is human intelligence? Are we really smarter than all the other members of the Homo genus? What factors prevent us from always attaining our full potential? Addressing a wide range of themes, from mental illness, reasons for addiction, and errors of bias through to the story of death, and the progress being made by artificial intelligence in knowledge of the brain, the neuroscience expert Manuel Martín-Loeches draws on the latest advances in the field to show how, as the world’s most unpredictable species, human beings think and feel, and to reveal what we are like.
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«In this marvelous book Manuel Martín-Loeches dissects the human condition on the basis of recent insights from cognitive (neuro)science. A must read!» Dr. Peter Hagoort, doctor at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
«Manuel Martín-Loeches has been at the forefront of applying neuroscience to archaeology over many years and has provided many interesting and engaging insights into cognitive evolution. I highly recommend ¿De qué nos sirve ser tan listos?» Dr. Derek Hodgson, author, academic and cognitive archaeologist
«Martín-Loeches enables us to understand highly complex concepts, bringing us close to them as if we’d finally been given the glasses we needed.» Àngels Barceló, journalist
«With Manuel, one really learns about the brain. He makes the complex simple. He turns what borders on the inexplicable into something understandable. We all need a teacher like him.» Iker Jiménez, journalist
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