Book description
Why do we laugh?
What makes memories fade?
Why do people believe in ghosts?
How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.
Why read it?
1 author picked How the Mind Works as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Pinker is a radical thinker (in this dictionary sense: âof or proceeding from the rootâ). His concerns embrace the nature of human behavior and firmly establish its upward trajectory over the last century and a half.
He argues that human life is continuously improved by the discovery and implementation of new ideas and solutions to fundamental problems.
From Roger's list on understand why musical innovation matters.
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