A school secret of cognitive apparatus

The Tel Aviv-born Daniel Kahneman, now Professor Emeritus in 1934 various US universities and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002, has submitted a commonsense book to allow access to questions of his lifelong scientific research. That in itself would be nothing that would create tension, it was not about issues, all of which, daily, hourly, concern us in every moment. In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman is a successful also from a didactic perspective insight into the research about the hows and whys of human decisions.

In a total of five chapters he draws the terrain. He begins with the two stereotypical systems of human knowledge, the emotional and the rational controlled. In some case studies, Kahneman reveals how the human brain in which stimuli operates and why we are faster when the emotional and slower when the rational programs run. The pure form of the use of the cognitive apparatus never existed, always mix the two patterns of explanation of the world, the control lies in a hand. Very successful is the presentation of the two systems. To lead us to system I, the emotionality, Kahneman uses the image of a stressed woman's face and for system II, the rationality, he presents the reader with the sight of a mathematical formula.

There follows a chapter on heuristic systems, where it comes to anchor, the superiority of causality in the statistical world, the erotic simple deductions. The chapter on overconfidence in the cognitive process is almost a continuation of the Critical Theory in terms of the development of ideology and the explanations of the choices between res publica and ego is just as successful as socio-critical reflection. The last chapter about the two self-individualized once again the options and conjugated it in all its social implications. It's not just about the question of the cognitive system I use, but if I am using a socially-social or individually-hedonistic logic.

The exciting thing about Daniel Kahneman's book is what is. Beyond the superficial, his scientific studies hides Descriptive The aim is to explain the world as social criticism alike. The reader learns not only what instrumental background have concrete decisions, but also what motivations predestined the result of the decision in its quality. And Kahneman remains because not practical no consequences of abstraction. The substantive theme of cognitive processes robbed in capitalism, the former professor from Berkeley, the individual's ability to find in creativity and design the state of happiness. Chapeau! Chapeau!