How the Mind Works
by:
Steven Pinker (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781582881188 (1582881189)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Scientific American Modern Classics
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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