Postulates that thought and thinking take place in a mental language that is physically realized in the brain and has a combinatorial syntax (and semantics) such that operations on representations are causally sensitive only to the syntactic properties of representations.

"Our results suggest that everyday cognitive judgments follow the same optimal statistical principles as perception and memory, and reveal a close correspondence between people’s implicit probabilistic models and the statistics of the world."

Shows that intranasal administration of oxytocin, a neuropeptide that plays a key role in social attachment and affiliation in non-human mammals, causes a substantial increase in trust among humans.

Discusses current and future methods of cognitive enhancement, ethical implications and how we, as a society, ought to respond. Comprehensive and balanced.

BA Studiengang an der Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg.

If I found myself waking up in a world where magic worked - a world where a few people could, by virtue of their knowledge, heal the sick or build castles in the air - I would study sorcery. Finding themselves in this world, why do so few study science?