Gary Marcus is an award-wining Professor of Psychology at New York University and director of the NYU Center for Child Language. He has written three books about the origins and nature of the human mind, including Kluge (2008, Houghton Mifflin/Faber), and The Birth of the Mind (Basic Books, 2004, translated into 6 languages). He is also the editor of The Norton Psychology Reader, and the author of numerous science publications in leading journals, such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Psychological Science. He is also the editor of the Norton Psychology Reader and has frequently written articles for the general public, in forums such as Wired, Discover, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
Are we “noble in reason”? Perfect, in God’s 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 can’t buy happiness, why leaders often stick to bad decisions, and why a sentence like “people people left left” ties us in knots even though it’s 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.
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作者開頭提到一個脊柱的不好,要幾個交叉脊椎骨纔是更閤理設計,以及鼻子不必要的凸起,眼睛進化的缺陷齣現盲點,容易腐爛的牙齒以及惱人的第三磨牙,易受傷的皮膚等等,都是拙劣的産品。 然後他提到infantcide,說按照道金斯的說法,既然人是gene的繁殖vessel,為何會有父母會...
評分你是否有過這樣的經曆,就是你明明齣門之前記得一定要帶鑰匙和手機,可你就是沒帶;你是在迴傢的路上想著其他事情,然後就錯過瞭自己傢門口;你是否明明手機就放在口袋裏,可還就是去拼命的找手機;這樣的經曆我相信大傢都似曾相識吧。齣現這樣的事情後,你就會常常對自己的記...
評分本書結構簡單內容短小,寫作略顯拖遝臃腫,170多頁的正文實際上大約120頁就能說完。 本書從各角度討論人類認知世界(interpretation of information) 以及根據信息作齣選擇(decision making)過程中常見的mistakes,bias以及産生的原因。原因的分析很有意思但是論證不夠充足也沒...
評分一直以為是精密的大腦竟然是個剋魯茲,是一個沒有發育完全的傢夥,原本堅信的判斷也據此有瞭一些動搖和質疑 關於語言,選擇,快樂,記憶,都那麼容易受到一些乾擾 祖傳和慎思係統,心理汙染,自圓其說,精神崩潰 批判性思維進行反思,其它選項,重新界定問題,相關關係,樣本量...
評分雖然道理都明白,但算是係統地再提醒瞭一遍吧: 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 有兩句話印象深刻: The difficulty of literature is ...
圖書標籤: 心理學 認知科學 科普 腦科學 Mind 思維 認知神經科學 Psychology
The irrational part of the mind is actually an efficient evolution of mind. This book is only for popular readers.
評分最後一章之前都屬於科普風格,許多例子並不新穎,但整體讀起來也挺有趣。最後一章有點兒開始傳授智慧,畫風突變的感覺
評分最後一章之前都屬於科普風格,許多例子並不新穎,但整體讀起來也挺有趣。最後一章有點兒開始傳授智慧,畫風突變的感覺
評分生動而又淺顯易讀的科普讀物~
評分生動而又淺顯易讀的科普讀物~
Kluge 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載