Coming to Our Senses Perceiving Complexity to Avoid Catastrophes (Audible Audio Edition) Viki McCabe Allyson Johnson Audible Studios Books
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In Coming to Our Senses, cognitive scientist Viki McCabe argues that prevailing theories of perception, cognition, and information cannot explain how we know the world around us. Using scientific studies and true stories, McCabe shows that the ecological disasters, political paralysis, and economic failures we now face originate in our tendency to privilege cognitive processes and products over the information we access with our perceptual systems. As a result, we typically default to making decisions using inaccurate information such as mechanistic theories that reduce the world to extractable, exploitable parts. But the world does not function as an assembly of parts; it functions as a coalition of complex systems - from cells to cities - that organize and sustain themselves and cannot be partitioned and retain their purpose. McCabe also argues that we cannot describe such systems using theories and words. Instead, each system reveals itself in fractal-like geometric configurations that emerge from and reflect the structural organization that brings it into existence and determines its functions - a veritable physics of information. Thus, we comprehend phenomena as disparate as neural networks, river deltas, and economies by perceiving the branching geometry that organizes them into distribution systems. McCabe's key point is that form not only follows function, it doubles as information. If we put our theories aside and focus on the information the world displays, our perceptions can block hostile mental takeovers, reconnect us to reality, and bring us back to our senses.
Coming to Our Senses Perceiving Complexity to Avoid Catastrophes (Audible Audio Edition) Viki McCabe Allyson Johnson Audible Studios Books
I picked up this book while browsing the Cognitive Science titles. I work with kids with autism who are often misunderstood. This book gave me insight into how prevailing theories of reality have harmed our understanding of children with autism; the book itself is not about autism, but I took the structure of reality discussed in the book and immediately connected it with the autistic brain--it was an eye opener. I believe children with autism have a deep and present knowledge of fractals that are overlooked by practitioners. I recommend this book highly.Product details
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Coming to Our Senses Perceiving Complexity to Avoid Catastrophes (Audible Audio Edition) Viki McCabe Allyson Johnson Audible Studios Books Reviews
As a lover of nature, I found this book both engaging and challenging. It is about the information that tells us about the natural world and explains how we often overlook it. The first chapter is full of ideas that I had never heard before and while I found them fascinating, they were not all easy to understand. There were also many references that I know were important, but for me, they interrupted the flow. I almost gave up on the book as this point, but when I finished that chapter and started to read the others, I found them compelling, easier to read, and well worth it. This is a book that one cannot skim through. It requires concentration because it is full of new ideas about our sensory abilities and how we perceive the real world and its structure subliminally. Once you read it, you will see the world differently and more accurately. For anyone who needs to make decisions about things that are happening in the world and wants to avoid mistakes, the information this book contains is invaluable. Now that I have finished reading this book, I recommend that everyone read it.
This is the most important book I've read in years. McCabe reveals why we have failed to address problems that threaten civilization, including climate change and growing inequality. This book is likely to disturb those who rely heavily on theory for understanding the world, but people who work directly with the complexity around us, whether restoring damaged river systems or poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, are sure to be heartened by McCabe’s analysis. She makes a compelling case for understanding the Earth’s natural processes, not primarily with language and ideas that emphasize the naming of parts, but instead by experiencing the world as we’ve evolved to perceive and respond to its complex working systems.
Coming to Our Senses challenges the way we view the world and how we live. Using real world events as object lessons, McCabe shows us the distinction between reality outside of ourselves and the theories and mental models that we consider to be reality in our own minds. It implores us to set our mental contrivances aside and take in critical information that the world is always offering to us through our senses. And as the book points out, our very survival—and the earth’s—may depend on this. Out of the 50+ books I have read in the past year, this is—hands down—the most compelling.
I was introduced to Dr. McCabe book through a commentary published by Oxford Press on her observations of the Seattle Seahawks season performance up to the Super Bowl 2014. I was struck by the clarity of her thinking about what made Coach Carroll's "band of rejects" into a such a winning team and decided to purchase her book on complexity and was not disappointed. I decided to write today because of the actions of Marshawn Lynch and a comment by a Seattle Time's staff writer that "He will never be treated better than he has been in Seattle." The book explains clearly why this is the case and also by example how Coach Carroll is able to motivate and prepare his players to win games by allowing them to see what is happening on the field and react to that rather than relying on the clutter of information in their minds. To be in the moment and to be as Dr. McCabe says where the ball is. Dr. McCabe's point is to use our senses with a heightened priority over our thinking too much. With many diverse real world examples Dr. McCabe points out the benefits of using commonsense coupled with a real sense of where we are.
I found this book very readable and will be sharing it with several others. Full of good examples, written with humor and insight.
bonnieM
I picked up this book while browsing the Cognitive Science titles. I work with kids with autism who are often misunderstood. This book gave me insight into how prevailing theories of reality have harmed our understanding of children with autism; the book itself is not about autism, but I took the structure of reality discussed in the book and immediately connected it with the autistic brain--it was an eye opener. I believe children with autism have a deep and present knowledge of fractals that are overlooked by practitioners. I recommend this book highly.
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