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.
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...
評分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...
評分 評分2009-12-04 -------------------------- 如果你和我一样,是个为了各种琐事而日夜奔忙的可怜人,你很可能也常常对自己的大脑愤恨不已—这个骄傲地占据了我们全身最高战略点、对其他各个器官颐指气使、并被号称是决定了我们作为“万物之灵长”的地位的家伙,经常漫不经心地辜负...
評分2009-12-04 -------------------------- 如果你和我一样,是个为了各种琐事而日夜奔忙的可怜人,你很可能也常常对自己的大脑愤恨不已—这个骄傲地占据了我们全身最高战略点、对其他各个器官颐指气使、并被号称是决定了我们作为“万物之灵长”的地位的家伙,经常漫不经心地辜负...
The irrational part of the mind is actually an efficient evolution of mind. This book is only for popular readers.
评分嗯.是這麼迴事,可是這類書怎麼都這麼囉嗦呢
评分比較淺
评分生動而又淺顯易讀的科普讀物~
评分開始覺得很好,後來漸漸覺得這本書的內容寫得很亂,就是定瞭個大主題後就開始信馬由繮。有些小實驗挺有趣,但這本書說講的道理不深,很錶象。
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