The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities
Publisher: Basic Books
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0465087868
ISBN-13: 9780465087860
In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition --the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement...