The Accidental Mind How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God |
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| Author:
| Linden, David J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-03058-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2008 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Imprint: | Belknap Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $55.95 |
Book Description:
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A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.
A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.