{"product_id":"out-of-our-minds-felipe-fernandez-armesto-9781786077851","title":"Out of Our Minds","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo imagine - to see that which is not there - is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTraversing the realms of science, politics, religion, culture, philosophy and history, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto reveals the thrilling and disquieting tales of our imaginative leaps. Through groundbreaking insights in cognitive science, he explores how and why we have ideas in the first place, providing a tantalising glimpse into who we are and what we might yet accomplish. Fernandez-Armesto shows that bad ideas are often more influential than good ones; that the oldest recoverable thoughts include some of the best; that ideas of Western origin often issued from exchanges with the wider world; and that the pace of innovative thinking is under threat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Felipe Fernandez-Armesto","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175174504691,"sku":"9781786077851","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781786077851.jpg?v=1662071275","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/out-of-our-minds-felipe-fernandez-armesto-9781786077851","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}