How the Mind Works"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." —New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. 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. This edition of Pinker's bold and buoyant classic is updated with a new foreword by the author. |
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... sentient, rational, free-willed agents, and its rules are the calculus that assigns moral value to behavior through the behavior's inherent nature or its consequences. Free will is an idealization of human beings that makes the ethics ...
... sentient free agent, depending on the purpose of the discussion, just as he is also a taxpayer, an insurance salesman, a dental patient, and two hundred pounds of ballast on a commuter airplane, depending on the purpose of the ...
... , and the episode was much discussed in my pre-teen critics' circle. (Why didn't he just take her head? asked one commentator.) Our pathos came both from sympathy with Corry for his loss and from the sense that a sentient. 59 how.2.qxd.
Steven Pinker. for his loss and from the sense that a sentient being had been snuffed out. Of course the directors had ... sentience, the raw sensation of toothaches and redness and saltiness and middle C, is still a riddle wrapped in a ...
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