The Watchman's Rattle
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What’s it about?
Why do civilizations collapse? This book argues that our brains are biologically unequipped to handle modern complexity, triggering irrationality, magical thinking, and a retreat to simple answers.
You’ll learn
- The threshold effect: when problems exceed cognitive capacity
- Why we regress to magical thinking and ideology
- How technology amplifies cognitive overload
- Using emergent intelligence to solve complex problems