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# Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

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Review: Brain feast!!!! (but not zombie related) - I bought this book at the large Tsim Sha Tsui bookshop in Hong Kong. It was certainly not a bit of a light reading as much as a brain feast. Thoroughly enjoyable, it kept challenging my perceptions about a variety of topics. The 17 year old me would probably fail to come up with such brilliant answers 20 years ago, but as a 38 years old child I totally loved it.
Review: a three quarter WOW.... - Well, if u on the subway, wanna take something to fill your time and nice or humor knowledge then this is the book, at first did not think it was all that but as i go on and on reading i realize its an amazing book, and what makes it amazing are its questions posed in there, that many times either have crossed your mind at some point in life or stun you and makes u go "hey ya that's right! what happens if i drop an ant? or if i drill earth pole to pole?" and so on... the other thing is that the way the author answers is amazing as well as he covers different aspects in different fields as in what happenes if u drill earth pole to pole and jump will u reach the other pole? so he covers what happens in the whole thing going through physics to biology to solving the question in an imaginary way and see if still works.... basically this book throws u the strange questions and makes ur mind twist and think how u go bout solving it, there is no right no wrong, coz of the question's nature, but its fun to think it out.....

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 184831132X |
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,623,252 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,946 in Philosophy of Logic & Language #2,489 in Jokes & Riddles (Books) #8,247 in Philosophy Movements (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (188) |
| Dimensions  | 5.08 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 9781848311329 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1848311329 |
| Item Weight  | 5.9 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 256 pages |
| Publication date  | June 3, 2010 |
| Publisher  | Icon Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brain feast!!!! (but not zombie related)
*by I***S on October 26, 2015*

I bought this book at the large Tsim Sha Tsui bookshop in Hong Kong. It was certainly not a bit of a light reading as much as a brain feast. Thoroughly enjoyable, it kept challenging my perceptions about a variety of topics. The 17 year old me would probably fail to come up with such brilliant answers 20 years ago, but as a 38 years old child I totally loved it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ a three quarter WOW....
*by A***R on September 5, 2011*

Well, if u on the subway, wanna take something to fill your time and nice or humor knowledge then this is the book, at first did not think it was all that but as i go on and on reading i realize its an amazing book, and what makes it amazing are its questions posed in there, that many times either have crossed your mind at some point in life or stun you and makes u go "hey ya that's right! what happens if i drop an ant? or if i drill earth pole to pole?" and so on... the other thing is that the way the author answers is amazing as well as he covers different aspects in different fields as in what happenes if u drill earth pole to pole and jump will u reach the other pole? so he covers what happens in the whole thing going through physics to biology to solving the question in an imaginary way and see if still works.... basically this book throws u the strange questions and makes ur mind twist and think how u go bout solving it, there is no right no wrong, coz of the question's nature, but its fun to think it out.....

### ⭐⭐⭐ Uneven, but a worthy read
*by R***T on November 10, 2016*

This book is a collection of articles that answer to a set of philosophical, ethical and scientific questions. Much of it is well-balanced and insightful- I learned quite a bit of it. Yet I felt it could have been written more carefully in order to quite reach the level of Julian Baggini's books, or the excellent Books "of General Ignorance". Also, the pieces do not connect well. For instance, there are musings over whether consciousness is specifically human, or if it may also be extended to animals. A thorny topic, as one cannot even 'prove' that one's spouse or neighbor has consciousness- this is well explained. But then there is a piece on Descartes, with his shaky 'cogito ergo sum'. He was clearly unaware of phantom limbs- if the brain can make you believe you still have a lost arm, with an itching finger, then what else can it fake? The 'Cartesian theatre' isn't going to help us explain how the mind works- biologists work under the assumption that this is a serpent that bites its own tail. But, surprisingly, the author then confidently states that machines will never feel guilty, or feel at all. Well... we also thought that machines could not play a decent game of chess... Such confidence reminds me of people who believe fish don't suffer because they cannot scream. Then there is an initially good piece on 'back-of-the-envelope' estimates. A few good examples are given but then comes, of all formulas, the Drake equation, confidently presented as yielding the number of intelligent civilizations in the Universe. Sorry, but we don't have the slightest clue as what the probability of life emerging is, given ideal circumstances (such as our cozy Earth). This probability may be infinitesimal small, such that we are the only example in the entire Universe, for no-one has come even close to recreating life from scratch. Or it may at the other extreme, equal to 1. And the argument there is that Life arose really quickly after the young Earth cooled. All we know is that this p is non-zero, and this huge uncertainty makes that the Drake formula, while formally correct, is basically useless. At other points the science is just sloppy: "..there are some 100 billion separate cells in the human brain (..), with each of those 100 billion cells making 1,000 or more separate connections with other cells". Sorry, not true. To quote Wikipedia: "..there are about 86 billion neurons and 85 billion "nonneuronal" (glial) cells in the human male brain." The latter are for support only.

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