The Origin of Ideas :: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark.

What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly rem...

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1. Verfasser: Turner, Mark
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable ability for granted? In The Origin of Ideas, Mark Turner offers a provocative new theory to answer these and many other questions. While other species do what we cannot-fly, run amazingly fast, see in the dark-only human beings can innovate so rapidly and widely. Turner argues that this dist.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (314 pages)
ISBN:9780199988839
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