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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking [edit]

John Brockman

Every year for more than a decade, intellectual impresario and Edge editor John Brockman has been asking the era’s greatest thinkers a single annual question, designed to illuminate some important aspect of how we understand the world. In 2011, he asked: “What scientific concept will improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”

The answers, featuring a wealth of influential scientists, authors, and thought-architects, are gathered in this formidable anthology of short essays by 151 of our time’s biggest thinkers on subjects as diverse as the power of networks, cognitive humility, the paradoxes of daydreaming, information flow, collective intelligence, and a dizzying, mind-expanding range in between. Together, they construct a powerful toolkit of meta-cognition — a new way to think about thinking itself.

Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/14/this-will-make-you-smarter-brockman-edge-question/

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