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100 1  Sloman, Steven A.,|eauthor. 
245 14 The knowledge illusion :|bwhy we never think alone /
       |cSteven Sloman and Philip Fernbach. 
264  1 New York :|bRiverhead Books,|c2017. 
300    296 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    Humans have built hugely complex societies and 
       technologies, but most of us don't even know how a pen or 
       a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite 
       understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven 
       Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and 
       thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in 
       a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence
       lies in the people and things around us. We're constantly 
       drawing on information and expertise stored outside our 
       heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, 
       and the community with which we interact--and usually we 
       don't even realize we're doing it.   The human mind is 
       both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, 
       created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and 
       sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone, 
       sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. The 
       fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and 
       knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than 
       we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are
       so hard to change, and why individually oriented 
       approaches to education and management frequently fail. 
       But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing 
       things. This book contends that true genius can be found 
       in the ways we create intelligence using the world around 
       us. 
650  0 Thought and thinking. 
650  0 Knowledge, Sociology of.