Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction Audiobook (Free)

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Advantage.org, Thinking presents primary ideas simply by today’s leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

-Daniel Kahneman about the energy (and pitfalls) of individual intuition and ‘unconscious’ pondering.

-Daniel Gilbert on desire, prediction, and why getting what we want doesn’t always make us happy.

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the limitations of statistics in guiding decision-making.

-Vilayanur Ramachandran over the technological underpinnings of human being nature.

-Simon Baron-Cohen in the startling ramifications of testosterone in the brain.

-Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the architecture of the ‘normal’ human mind.

-Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence.

-Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis of evolutionary and biological thinking.

-Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality and what informs our choices.