Andrew Smart Biography

Andrew Smart is the author of Beyond Zero and One: Machines, Psychedelics and Consciousness, which convincingly makes the case that true intelligence, and artificial intelligence, requires an appreciation of what is beyond the computational. His first book is Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing which explores what our brains are doing when we are idle. The book challenges the current cult of productivity and argues that creativity and insight require idleness.

Autopilot has been translated into four languages and has been written about at CNN, Forbes, The Independent, Slate, The New Statesman and many foreign publications. Mr. Smart’s writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Switch & Shift and Quartz. He has also published several papers in academic journals.

Mr. Smart has a B.S. and M.S. degrees in cognitive science from Lund University in Sweden. He has worked as a research scientist at New York University and Honeywell Aerospace. His interests comprise the benefits of noise for cognition, consciousness and idleness. He currently does research in the area of human-computer interaction.

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