Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye, Shermer Michael

Автор: Shermer Michael
Название: Believing Brain
ISBN: 1780335296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780335292
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: `The Believing Brain is a tour de force integrating neuroscience and the social sciences to explain how irrational beliefs are formed and reinforced` - Dr Leonard Mlodinow, author The Drunkard`s Walk

Автор: Donnell James
Название: Atlanta 1864
ISBN: 1472811534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472811530
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: On September 3, 1864, Union Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman telegraphed the War Department in Washington, D.C., "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won." This book explores the entire Atlanta campaign, from Sherman`s initial clashes with Joseph E. Johnston`s army of Tennessee to the final Confederate resistance under General John Bell Hood.

Автор: Shermer Michael
Название: The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
ISBN: 1250008808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250008800
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. Using sensory data that flow in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning, forming beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, accelerating the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop.

In The Believing Brain, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. And ultimately, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not our beliefs match reality.