Coming to our senses : perceiving complexity to avoid catastrophes / Viki McCabe.
Coming to our senses : perceiving complexity to avoid catastrophes / Viki McCabe.
Coming to our senses : perceiving complexity to avoid catastrophes / Viki McCabe.
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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G 2015/1361
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English
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xii, 273 pages ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
1. The Structure of Reality -- Theory Promotes Disaster -- The Origins and Nature of Structural Information -- The USS Missouri: Saved by Structural Information -- A Contrasting View: Signal Detection Theory -- Our Complex Perceptual Systems and Structural Information: J.J. Gibson's View -- Complex...
3. Perceiving Dynamics -- Dynamic Structural Information -- The Oscillating Figure Eight Reveals Identity -- Do We Have Memories of Structural Information? -- Our Brain-World Interface -- Navigation Grids and Place Cells -- Walking in Other People's-Moccasins -- Experiencing Empathy -- 4. Restructur...
Mating, Foraging, and Escaping -- Indigo Bunting Migration -- Human-Environment Affordances -- Perceiving and Representing Structural Information -- Benoit Mandelbrot's Fractal Geometry -- Our Fractal Brain -- 6. Experts' Experts "Repetitions Without Repetition" -- Minimally Essential Information --...
8. Are Scientific Theories Different? -- Alfred Wegener and the Theory of Continental Drift i -- Barbara McClintock and Her Perception of Jumping Genes -- How Science Can Progress by Extending Our Eyes -- Theories and Complexity -- 9. Are Economic Theories Different? -- Replacing Reality: The Evolut...
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2014]
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In Coming to Our Senses, cognitive scientist Viki McCabe argues that prevailing theories of perception, cognition, and information cannot explain how we know the world around us. Using scientific studies and true stories, McCabe shows that the ecological disasters, political paralysis, and economic failures we now face originate in our tendency to...
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Coming to our senses : perceiving complexity to avoid catastrophes / Viki McCabe.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.
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G 2015/1361
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74VKOjXXzlmb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOjXXzlmb
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ISBN
0199988587 (hardcover)
9780199988587 (hardcover)
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153.7
MMS ID
991022614989702626
