Download The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God AudioBook Free
You might have seen it before: a mind dramatically lit from the medial side, the camera circling it just like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's chic design in reverent tones... to which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a just work at once deeply discovered and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the wide-spread assumption that the mind is a paragon of design - and in its place offers us a compelling explanation of how the brain's serendipitous development has resulted in nothing in short supply of our humanity. A guide to the peculiar and often illogical world of neural function, The Accidental Mind shows how the brain is no optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but instead a unusual agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. Moreover, Linden instructs us how the constraints of evolved brain design have finally led to nearly every transcendent real human foible: our long childhoods, our comprehensive memory capacity, our search for love and long-term human relationships, our need to build compelling narrative, and, in the end, the universal social impulse to build both spiritual and medical explanations. With forays into evolutionary biology, this evaluation of mental function right answers some of our most frequent questions about how precisely we've become who we live. The book is published by Harvard University Press.
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