Kluge

出版者:Houghton Mifflin Co

作者:Gary Marcus

页数:224

出版时间:2008-4-16

价格:USD 24.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780618879649

具体描述

Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in Gods image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a kluge, a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature. Taking us on a tour of the fundamental areas of human experience -- memory, belief, decision-making, language, and happiness -- Marcus reveals the myriad ways our minds fall short. He examines why people often vote against their own interests, why money cant buy happiness, why leaders often stick to bad decisions, and why a sentence like people people left left ties us in knots even though its only four words long. Marcus also offers surprisingly effective ways to outwit our inner kluge, for the betterment of ourselves and society. Throughout, he shows how only evolution -- haphazard and undirected -- could have produced the minds we humans have, while making a brilliant case for the power and usefulness of imperfection.

作者简介

盖瑞·马库斯

心理学与脑研究专家，纽约大学心理学教授，纽约大学婴幼儿语言学习中心主任；师从史蒂芬·平克（TED演讲人、世界超级语言学家和认知心理学家），23岁就获得了麻省理工大学的博士学位。

主要著作包括《代数的头脑》(TheAlgebraicMind)、《头脑的诞生》(TheBirthoftheMind)、《诺顿心理学读本》(TheNortonPsychologyReader)。

作品经常在《纽约时报》、《费城询问报》、《洛杉矶时报》等媒体发表。

读后感

学者们常说，人类进化成直立行走的动物，才解放了双手，让我们成为智人。 然而这样的进化优势，却同时也让我们患上了四足动物不会有的病，比如人走多了、坐久了都会腰疼，那是因为脊椎受不了。 直立之后，让我们脊椎难以承受身体的重量，嗅觉变得不再灵敏，还要提前将胎儿排除...  

虽然道理都明白，但算是系统地再提醒了一遍吧: Memory is contextual Beliefs are malleable Decisions are often shortsighted or biased Language is often ambiguous Short- and long-term pleasures are often at war 有两句话印象深刻： The difficulty of literature is ...  

虽然道理都明白，但算是系统地再提醒了一遍吧: Memory is contextual Beliefs are malleable Decisions are often shortsighted or biased Language is often ambiguous Short- and long-term pleasures are often at war 有两句话印象深刻： The difficulty of literature is ...  

这是一本让我在阅读过程中不断发出“我嚓原来是这样”感叹的书。 作者从进化论和社会实验入手，阐述了人类大脑在进化过程中产生的一些缺陷，并以此为基础对记忆、信念、选择、快乐等抽象事物的形成作出了诠释。 其中贯穿文章始终的是一个叫“克鲁机（Kluge）”的概念，其原始意...  

这是一本让我在阅读过程中不断发出“我嚓原来是这样”感叹的书。 作者从进化论和社会实验入手，阐述了人类大脑在进化过程中产生的一些缺陷，并以此为基础对记忆、信念、选择、快乐等抽象事物的形成作出了诠释。 其中贯穿文章始终的是一个叫“克鲁机（Kluge）”的概念，其原始意...  

用户评价

没有那么差吧，其实也还可以，像这样的内容其实原本也只是靠别人领路。

感觉可以写得更深一点？全文看下来好像所有问题的根源都是context-dependent memory

很棒 BF38 .M355 2008

很棒 BF38 .M355 2008

感觉可以写得更深一点？全文看下来好像所有问题的根源都是context-dependent memory