6/28/2023 0 Comments Pinker how the mind works![]() ![]() His writing on these subjects involves more speculation. In the chapters that follow, Pinker addresses complex aspects of human behavior and life such as emotions, friendship, and reasoning. He posits that visual illusions can be partially explained by evolution, and in Chapter 5 he discusses how the mind forms ideas based on the information it receives. He goes on the introduce the concepts of intelligence and consciousness, and he argues that the current design of the human mind is the result of natural selection and has been shaped by the surrounding environment.īeginning in Chapter 4, Pinker examines more abstract mental processes, such as vision, knowledge, learning, and ideas. ![]() The focus is on the computational theory of mind, which Pinker believes is important in explaining of how the physical brain leads to the human mind. ![]() ![]() He presents his definition of the mind and how it is connected to yet distinct from the brain-essentially, the mind is the activity of the brain. In the first four chapters, he presents basic information on how the brain is structured and how it functions. This structure mirrors one of the themes of the book, which focuses on the iterative way we learn, starting from what we know and building increased knowledge. Pinker begins the book by discussing neurons and basic processes, later moving on to more complex ideas, such as emotions, and finishing with sections devoted to ideas he doesn’t feel even his approach can address, like free will. ![]()
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