[PDF.77kv] Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

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 | #1194085 in Books |  Houghton Mifflin Co |  2008-04-16 |  2008-03-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.70 x5.25l,.75 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Local Maxima: "optimisation is not an inevitable outcome of evolution, just a possible one."|By Umer Vakil|The metaphor of the evolutionary mountain best describes the underlying idea of this book: as we 'descended with modification', our biological features, including those of our brain, were simply engineering feats that were just 'good enough' for us to survive long enough|From Publishers Weekly|Why are we subject to irrational beliefs, inaccurate memories, even war? We can thank evolution, Marcus says, which can only tinker with structures that already exist, rather than create new ones: Natural selection... tends to favor genes

Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.

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