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

By:

Turner, Mark [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199988839

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

BF408 .O754 2014

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Contents:

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	BF408 .845 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn867929519

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; The Origin Of Ideas; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Human Spark; 2 Catch a Fire; 3 The Idea of You; 4 The Idea of I; 5 Forbidden Ideas; 6 Artful Ideas; 7 Vast Ideas; 8 Tight Ideas; 9 Recurring Ideas; 10 Future Ideas; Appendix The Academic Workbench; Notes; References; Index

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.

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