how the mind works review

This is sitting on my shelf, but I haven't got round to it so far . Sometimes, to my own fault, quotes are interlaced with my own words. This page works best with JavaScript.

And that’s why fashions change so quickly.The people above always seek to differentiate themselves from those below them, while those below always try to copy them to get their same status. Carl Sagan filed suit, Apple changed the name of the prototype to "Butthead Astronomer". Another writing issue is that, at times, his argumentation style comes across as impatient, as if he expects an assertion to be believed without supporting evidence.

The first part of the book explains Pinker's view on how the mind works.

Pinker discusses human nature from the viewpoint of evolutionary psychology. This is particularly surprising in view of the fact that Chomsky knows Hebrew. Perhaps he read a few books and pretends to have gained wisdom however offers regurgitation mixed with arrogant personality. It’s funny that, of all the people, Pinker falls for this. Do not, however, imagine this is a science text written for peer-review. Biologist William Hamilton noted, that if a benefit to the relative, multiplied by the probability that the genes is shared, exceeds the cost to the animal, that gene will spread in the population. Computational theory of the mind: Beliefs and desires are information, incarnated as configurations of symbols. Pinker posits that the mind is what the brain does, and as scientist learn more about the brain and genetics we will have answers to the hardest questions; like what the brain has to do with Phenomenology. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. Background – You’ll get contextual knowledge as a frame for informed action or analysis. And he is undeniably great intellectual. Perhaps you are using adaptive in some other sense? Scientific – You’ll get facts and figures grounded in scientific research. It may be that he has very strong opinions that he defends well on controversial subjects. Hmm. Eloquent – You’ll enjoy a masterfully written or presented text. Criminality, substance abuse, and even the more petty human failings such as greed and vanity are assumed to have psychological underpinnings that come from one's childhood experiences. [yahoo.com] To quote the relevant part... Cohn said one killer put a pistol to his head but did not shoot him. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria: Enlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it’s all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another. Steven Pinker dedicates one chapter to altruism and the evolution of altruism. Will we see a "Data" or a "C-3PO" in our lifetimes?

Fascinating chapters on evolutionary psychology; very accessible for non-neuroscientists. Maybe it is professional jealousy. • A vast text that attempts to explain what the mind is, where it comes from, and how it lets us see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art religion, and philosophy. Eye opening – You’ll be offered highly surprising insights. • Consciousness has various forms. He makes no claim to the problems all being solved, or, in a few instances, even being identified. Pinker realizes this, but does not do a particularly good job. This is not a self help book. After all, the mind is designed to attain a maximum number of copies of the genes that created it. It is the hunt for universal inherited characteristics of the Homo Saipan. Pinker details why scientists, including social scientists, agree that the physical body has evolved through a process of natural selection over millions of years.

Disgust is intuitive microbiology, Children try to get in between parents to hog attention and avoid competition with a new child. I’m shocked at all the good reviews. Reading “How the Mind Works”, I felt like it was like a hymn to evolution’s perfection.

18 January 1997 By Nicholas Humphrey. He is, however, careful to remind us regularly of the limits of scientific enquiry, and of how much we still don't know "Virtually nothing is known about the functioning microcircuitry of the human brain, because there is a shortage of volunteers willing to give up their brains to science before they are dead."

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A reality-bound and well-argued approach to psychology, Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2019. The Essence. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead. As might be expected from the man who wrote The Language Instinct, he's a master of illustrative example and with many anecdotes for teaching the reader. There must be a better book on the subject for the average intelligent reader, but I have not found it. But nothing in Hamilton’s theory says that the genes will necessarily spread, like Pinker makes it sound.Again, this to me suggests that Pinker has a rather deterministic view of evolution, and that if something can happen because it’s good for the gene, then it will happen for sure.

You’ll be thinking about your thinking for months afterward.

Steven Pinker, like a few other evolutionary psychologists do, doesn’t buy into the much-vaunted irrationality of the human mind. So if you always go for the best you can get, rationally you would leave your partner.That’s why people want to see from their partners’ feelings, and signs that they chose them because they really like them, and not because of a rational calculation. I've gone full circle from finding obscene stupidity angering to merely fascinating. Written informally, the notes contain a mesh and mix of quotes and my own thoughts on the book.

Their attack took, at the very least, a fair amount of dogged planning.
But, you will get many insights into it, you will get myths shattered, suspicions gratified and more explanations than you can probably absorb. Unravelling the mechanisms of human thinking and emotions is garnering increased attention from dedicated scientists and thinkers.

No database could install the facts we tacitly know, and no one ever thought them to us. I've not read the book but wanted to respond to your comments concerning the shooting. Or did Janice mentally change loser to spell it like a geek would?

I've found these particular kinds of abstract thinking are pretty easy to teach if you have the time and good nature to explain it in a way they can understand.

Often, the best way to benefit one’s group is to displace, subjugate, or annihilate the group next door. This is what Freud misunderstood: it’s not sexual competition, it’s competition for resources, Children grow up influenced by their peer group far more than their parents because their peers provide far more reliable information as to which behaviors will be effective. Message from Our Sponsor on ttyTV at 13:58 ... "...happiness and virtue have nothing to do with what natural selection designed us to accomplish in the ancestral environment. Natural selection does not have the foresight of engineers. Combining the theories of natural selection and computational theory of mind, evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker shares how the mind thought of as a system of organs, designed over long periods of time, functions to solve the problems of a species within the ecological niche such as the Homo Sapiens. Only be recognizing them as separate can we have them both. But they are flattering the researchers(…) No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. It's not an easy read, but worth every effort. One could distill all of the interesting science in this book to about 100 pages, yet he drones on about topics that are merely tangential to the subject matter. But in short, the opposition comes because of three wrong implications about a human nature: In short, some (leftist) scholars see it like this: innate = right wring = bad. The theories that Pinker pushes are generally sound, and he goes at length to present scientific arguments for and against them. The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria.

Discoveries in the past years in artificial intelligence would require this book to be reviewed make it more concise so in essence re-write. • “Mental Organ”: It is clear the mind is structured heterogeneously with many specialized parts. I really dug it and didn't see any of what I would consider hand waving.

This book is very interesting and insightful and very useful. Yeah, halfway… But how about 1/5 of a wing?

This book is very well researched and well written by the renowned psychologist Steven Pinker. It does not have their mental blocks, impoverished imagination, or conformity to bourgeois sensibility and ruling class interests either. So when a smoker rationalizes that his 90-year-old parents have been smoking for decades, so the national statics don’t apply to him, he might as well be right. I agree that there is a lack of rigour in the definitions of "modularity" and hence a confusion in classifications that use this term.

I've tutored low-GPA 3rd graders and easily taught them about x=5, but then x=3 in the next problem. • ‘Cognitive niche’: Using knowledge of how things work to attain goals in the face of obstacles. Pinker claims instead that some parts of the 'dark side' of being human is genetically encoded. And a man has an affair because the woman is not his wife. • The concept of the individual is the fundamental particle of our faculties of social reasoning.
Dismissing neo-nazis as stupid is a dangerous underestimation. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery.

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