We’ve mastered the world, but two cognitive psychologists (S. Sloman and P. Fernbach) in this new book say we are increasingly ignorant as individuals and depend heavily
on collective information plus each other to solve problems. They argue that human inventions come less from individual ingenuity and much more from language-related abilities to learn from and work with others.

The book combines scientific evidence with dozens of intriguing examples of shared human creations, such as money, but has no complete solution for how to avoid manipulation and cope with today’s information explosion.

This study group for those 50 and above will be led by instructor Paul Wenger who retired in 1992 after 30 years as a communications professor.

This group will meet for two hours on Thursdays from September 28 through October 26.