How the Mind Works
by:
Steven Pinker (author)
A fascinating, provocative book exploring the mysteries of human thought and behavior, How the Mind Works uses "reverse engineering"--determining what natural selection designed the mind to accomplish in a hunting-and-gathering environment--to explain how the mind stores and uses information.
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A fascinating, provocative book exploring the mysteries of human thought and behavior, How the Mind Works uses "reverse engineering"--determining what natural selection designed the mind to accomplish in a hunting-and-gathering environment--to explain how the mind stores and uses information.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393045352 (0393045358)
Publish date: October 1st 1997
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages no: 660
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humanities,
Language,
Science,
Popular Science,
Biology,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Neuroscience,
Evolution,
Brain
Steven Pinker does for neuroscience/psychology what Jared Diamond did for evolutionary natural history, Rachel Carson did for environmental biology, Stephen Hawking did for physics etc etc etc. "the" name in a popular rewrite of brain science, Pinker's work is not absolutely even/mind-enrapturing (t...
This takes me a long time to finish this book. Probably because I decided to leave this book at home and only read this at night.First off, Steven Pinker is as brillant as ever. He explains a lot of about our minds, and how common sense is not common. He compared the human mind with machine computat...
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