He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. "Witty popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as well as for the science. In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. "Hugely entertaining.always sparkling and provoking." - Wall Street Journal
Since it uses standard Darwinian approaches, it is hardly. This new edition of Pinker's bold and buoyant classic is updated with a new foreword by the author. How the Mind Works (1997) explains how the human mind processes information by drawing upon evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind (ie. Since it mainly rehashes popular theories of mind of the 1990s, it is hardly provocative at all. What makes us rational-and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love? And how do we grapple with the imponderables of morality, religion, and consciousness? How the Mind Works synthesizes the most satisfying explanations of our mental life from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and other fields to explain what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and contemplate the mysteries of life.
In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind.
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