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Author Claxton, Guy.

Title Hare brain, tortoise mind : why intelligence increases when you think less / Guy Claxton.

Imprint Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  153.4 C579h  1999    ---  Available
Edition 1st Ecco ed.
Description xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247) and index.
Contents Speed of thought -- Basic intelligence : learning by osmosis -- Premature articulation : how thinking gets in the way of learning -- Knowing more than we think : intuition and creativity -- Having an idea : the gentle art of mental gestation -- Thinking too much : reason and intuition as antagonists and allies -- Perception without consciousness -- Self-consciousness -- Brains behind the operation -- Point of consciousness -- Paying attention -- Rudiments of wisdom -- Undermind society : putting the tortoise to work.
Subject Thought and thinking.
Cognition.
Intellect.
ISBN 0880016221

 
    
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