# How Brains Think

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- Book: [How Brains Think](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-h-calvin/how-brains-think) ([How Brains Think.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-h-calvin/how-brains-think.md))
- Authors: [William H Calvin](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-h-calvin)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8022-771-9
- Published: 2013-12-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A new theory of Intelligence, from a renowned and highly respected writer on brains and evolution What constitutes consciousness or intelligence? This is a question that has proved to philosophers to be an intellectual dead-end. Now William Calvin, by looking closely at animal and human intelligence and a wide range of evolutionary evidence, has broken new ground that will help us understand mental illness and illuminate the whole notion of what it is to be a person. Calvin begins by asking what intelligence is. He moves to the Why of intelligence, where evidence from chimpanzees is important, before coming to the all-important How of intelligence, the cerebral codes and Darwinian processes that operate within seconds to produce intelligent thought and action.