The Accidental Mind – How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams and God
Autor David J Lindenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 oct 2008
To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design--and in its place gives us a compelling explanation of how the brain's serendipitous evolution has resulted in nothing short of our humanity. A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, The Accidental Mind shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. Moreover, Linden tells us how the constraints of evolved brain design have ultimately led to almost every transcendent human foible: our long childhoods, our extensive memory capacity, our search for love and long-term relationships, our need to create compelling narrative, and, ultimately, the universal cultural impulse to create both religious and scientific explanations. With forays into evolutionary biology, this analysis of mental function answers some of our most common questions about how we've come to be who we are.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780674030589
ISBN-10: 0674030583
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 40 halftones, 7 line illustrations
Dimensiuni: 192 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674030583
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 40 halftones, 7 line illustrations
Dimensiuni: 192 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Harvard University Press