My New Book: "What Is Thinking?"
an expansive and thorough yet concise and brief introductory guide
I recently self-published a concise book (114 pages, including references) on Amazon titled "What Is Thinking?" It is intended as an expansive and thorough yet concise and brief introductory guide to the subject.
It can be purchased as a paperbook, Kindle, or audiobook (Click Here)
From the introduction:
At first, the question “What is thinking?” may seem too obvious to ask. Thinking is as normal a part of everyday life as breathing and hearing. We plan, solve problems, imagine, and remember with little thought about the process itself. However, when we stop to examine it, thinking turns out to be extremely complex and in many ways mysterious.
Is thinking just brain activity, or is it something more? Do machines and animals think? What are the limits of our thinking? Is there a correct or best type of thinking? Does thinking differ fundamentally between people?
This short book looks at thinking from many perspectives, including neuroscience, biology, psychology, philosophy, evolution, culture, and art.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Defining Thinking
3. A Brief History of Thought About Thought
4. Thinking and Evolution
5: How the Body Shapes Thinking
6. Limits of the Human Brain and Thinking
7. The Emotional and the Intellectual: Two Modes of Human Thinking
8. An Example of Emotional Thinking– Mystical Experiences– and What it Tells Us About Human Knowledge
9. How Culture Shapes Thinking
10. Memory: The Unreliable Foundation of Thought
11. Language and Thought
12. Humans as Storytellers
13. Art as a Way of Thinking
14. Science and Logic
15. Human Neurodiversity: Different Ways of Thinking
16. An Example of How Human Thinking Evolved: Early Humans Were Essentially Schizophrenic
17. Children’s Thinking
18. Non-Human Animal Thinking
19. Artificial Intelligence
20. Distributed Thinking and Cognitive Offloading
21. Thinking as a Network: Group Minds in Nature and Society
22. Consciousness
23. There Is No Single Best or Correct Way to Think
24. How Independent Is Human Thought?
References
I very much bristle at self-promotion, but every once in a while, it proves to be effective. In this case, I just ordered your book! :) I wish I had your gift of speaking succinctly and clearly about a subject matter. Maybe it is because I am no expert in anything, thus I enjoy many things, and speak somewhat clumsily about everything. I am looking forward to thinking about thinking and then sharing what I've read with others.