Coming to Our Senses: Perceiving Complexity to Avoid Catastrophes
"In her heartening new book, Viki McCabe urges us to understand our world not through abstract words and ideas--which she writes,"prune what is happening on the ground into parts to make it mentally manageable"--but through our senses. She argues that our failure to do so might  be responsible for problems like climate change and inequality. This beautifully written, persuasively documented book shows how our culture might look if we began to take seriously the task of imitating nature's processes instead of imposing our own." The American ScholarCognitive Scientist McCabe challenges prevailing theories of perception, cognition, and information, and how they illuminate-or-obscure our ability to acquire knowledge of the world.