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During the lengthy and complex process of human evolution our ancestors had to adapt to testing situations in which survival depended on making rapid choices that subjected muscles and body to extreme tension. In order to seize a prey travelling at 36 km per hour Homo sapiens had just thousandths of a second in which to prepare the appropriate gesture. While we are no longer faced with such an environment, our brain continues to use the adapti...

Pochi dilemmi nella storia del pensiero umano hanno suscitato dibattiti così appassionanti come quello sulla coscienza. Fino a qualche decennio fa non molti studiosi riconoscevano dignità scientifica al problema, forse a causa della sua intima natura soggettiva, dell'impossibilità di misurare l'introspezione, dell'artificiosa opposizione tra conscio e inconscio. Così lo studio della consapevolezza è stato per lungo tempo appannaggio della filo...

Since the dawn of time human beings have had to make decisions. Wise or foolish, thoughtful or instinctive, altruistic or selfish, decision-making -- from the most simple to the most complex -- enables people to confront and overcome constant environmental challenges. Yet, despite the momentousness of decision-making in adaptability terms, men and women ignore the actual process that takes place in their minds when, for example, they invest in...

The goal of this book is to consider the importance of intuition and natural logic in decision-making. In everyday life people frequently make judgements and take decisions without explicitly using all the relevant information available from the environment and from their memory. Moreover, even if people are aware of detail and circumstance, they do not necessarily analyse the information at their disposal on a deeper level, nor consider it in...

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Comprendere origini e ragioni di ogni nostra decisione è la sfida del libro di Mauro Maldonato che indaga gli invisibili processi della mente. "Quando decidiamo" ci esorta a indagare da una prospettiva inconsueta il nostro inconscio: prendere una decisione è soltanto per metà un processo consapevole, perché nel "sistema aperto" che è il nostro cervello giocano la loro parte anche gli aspetti più in ombra del nostro Io. Ci piace considerarci ma...

Emerging at the margins of science fiction the concept of posthuman has become the most potent and pervasive movement of contemporary culture. From science to ethics, from philosophy to art, from politics to communication, posthuman studies transcend analytical-conceptual categories of traditional disciplines. This new anthropology, open to a hetero-referential alterity (bio-techno-IT), requires, on the pathic level, new forms of adaptation an...

This book sets out to explain how scientific research is conducted. Editors Mauro Maldonato and Ricardo Pietrobon and contributors focus on the emerging inter/transdisciplinary dimensions of research. They use an approach grounded in the sciences of complexity to counteract the disciplinary fragmentation and decontextualisation created by a reductionist approach. The underlying theme throughout all the chapters is a practical focus on improvin...