TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,Mark
TI  - The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark
SN  - 9780199988839
AV  - BF408 .O754 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, USA
KW  - Creative ability
KW  - Idea (Philosophy)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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