Just recently I have read this book, written by Steven Pinker, a great cognitive scientist, and psychologist, that nicely describes how not just us but also our mind came to be during the evolution process, why and how we got the sense of sight, how and why did evolution decide that bigger brains are what is better for the spices, how we think, interact and do many other things in life that we as humans do.
It opens your mind to the completely different perspective of perceiving the life, it tells us why do the modern cognitive scientist think that cultural evolution has taken over of changing our spices away from the biological one.
Author tries to explain the mind by putting together small pieces, that do simple calculations, to create an enourmus biologically powered computation machine that mind actually is. He shows us how the mind is easily convinced to see world different than it actually is, why do we see it the way we do, why a pair of eyes is much better than just a single one.
The journey that one makes by reading this book is amazing since it starts with explaining simple thing and the puts them together just like bricks to explain some complex phenomenon like why do we behave the way we do, and in the end, what the meaning of life is.
If you dare to touch these questions and would like to know some of the answers (or at least what they might be), I recommend you to read this great book.
It opens your mind to the completely different perspective of perceiving the life, it tells us why do the modern cognitive scientist think that cultural evolution has taken over of changing our spices away from the biological one.
Author tries to explain the mind by putting together small pieces, that do simple calculations, to create an enourmus biologically powered computation machine that mind actually is. He shows us how the mind is easily convinced to see world different than it actually is, why do we see it the way we do, why a pair of eyes is much better than just a single one.
The journey that one makes by reading this book is amazing since it starts with explaining simple thing and the puts them together just like bricks to explain some complex phenomenon like why do we behave the way we do, and in the end, what the meaning of life is.
If you dare to touch these questions and would like to know some of the answers (or at least what they might be), I recommend you to read this great book.
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