Overview

This book provides an innovative interdisciplinary approach to understanding the principles of human thinking and offers techniques concerning the solution of abstract problems and predictions based on those principles.

Utilizing the concepts of complexity science, the book explains the emergence and structural elements of cognitive models underlying such diverse human behaviors as abstract thought, kindness, and selfishness.

Such cognitive models allow humans to react to their present environments and make accurate and useful predictions of their futures.

Intended Audience

Those who might find this book of interest are primarily academics or professionals interested in a unique and interdisciplinary approach to cognition based on complexity science.

The book may also be utilized as a supplemental class text in programs on complexity science, life science, and cognition.