How the Mind Works
Recommended by Dan Kaminsky, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #17 in Neuroscience, Ranked #23 in Cognitive Psychology — see more rankings.
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. 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. And he does it with the wit that prompted Mark Ridley to write in the New York Times Book Review, "No other science writer makes me laugh so much. . . . [Pinker] deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him." The arguments in... more
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Dan Kaminsky @DanielMiessler @balajis How The Mind Works being the formative book of my intellectual career makes this particularly interesting. I don’t always agree with Pinker but that’s not a requirement. (Source)
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- #30 in Brain
- #49 in Consciousness
- #79 in Evolution
- #24 in Evolutionary Psychology
- #32 in Human Brain
- #73 in Linguistics
- #33 in Mind
- #34 in Neurology
- #81 in Popular Science
- #91 in Psychology
- #88 in Reasoning
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