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portada Rational Thought and Imagination - Pensée Rationnelle et Imagination
Type
Physical Book
Author
Other
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
250
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21x14.8x1.3 cm
Weight
0.30 kg.
ISBN13
9781471753640
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Rational Thought and Imagination - Pensée Rationnelle et Imagination

Pierre Petiot (Author) · Evi Moechel (Other) · Lulu.com · Paperback

Rational Thought and Imagination - Pensée Rationnelle et Imagination - Petiot, Pierre ; Moechel, Evi

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Synopsis "Rational Thought and Imagination - Pensée Rationnelle et Imagination"

Etymologically, "rational" derives from the Latin "ratio", relating to calculation. The word calculation recalls an ancient practice of handling small pebbles. Rational thought is a thought that calculates. A computer rationally performs all the calculations one wants - logical calculations included. Should we think that it thinks? Descartes in Règles pour la Direction de l'Esprit does not think this way. On closer inspection, his Method is rather a way to organize findings of the imagination. Resulting from 3 dreams of Descartes - dreams as rational as all the others - the Method is however not foreign to the principles of the division of labor as deployed in the Dutch industry of the time. Given a goal, the Method will probably achieve it. But where do its goals come from? Genius - that of Descartes included - is an incomparable encounter. It wanders, but it finds, and suddenly revolutionizes entire semantic fields. Like Darwinian pre-adaptations at work in biological evolution, genius creates, in one single move, both the solution and its problem . Imagination does not come from Heavens, but is rooted in Evolution. The work of 3 Nobel Prize winners on the spatial imagination of mice (2014) and two other Nobel Prize winners on adaptive immunity (1972 and 1987) provide an idea of ​​some of the mechanisms implemented by living beings.

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