How the Mind Works
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
'Powerful and gripping... To have read it is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche ... a glittering tour de force' Spectator
Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts?
From the acclaimed author of Enlightenment Now and Better Angels of Our Nature, How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.
'Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind ... He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us "see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy' Sunday Times
Customer Reviews
“Mind” Blowing
Although this book was written in the 90’s and the understanding of the mind has probably excelled since this book is still filled with little passages of heart flutters. Heart flutters are when bits of information are incredible that it makes your heart pump really fast and you want to shout out to another person about the information you’ve just learned. Great book, give it a go.