Kluge

副标题: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind

ISBN: 9780547238241

出版社: Mariner Books

出版年: 2009-4-7

页数: 211

定价: 129.00元

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

How is it that we can recognize photos from our high school yearbook decades later, but cannot remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday? And why are we inclined to buy more cans of soup if the sign says "LIMIT 12 PER CUSTOMER" rather than "LIMIT 4 PER CUSTOMER?" In "Kluge, "Gary Marcus argues convincingly that our minds are not as elegantly designed as we may believe. The imperfections result from a haphazard evolutionary process that often proceeds by piling new systems on top of old ones--and those systems don't always work well together. The end product is a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. Taking us on a tour of the essential areas of human experience--memory, belief, decision making, language, and happiness--Marcus unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the evolution of the human mind and simultaneously sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.

作者简介

盖瑞·马库斯

他是纽约大学的青年才俊，年纪轻轻就已著述颇丰；

他是心理学与脑研究专家，目前是纽约大学心理学教授，纽约大学婴幼儿语言学习中心主任。

他稀奇古怪的理论总是彻底颠覆传统智慧，比如为什么大脑老出错？小小的基因如何创造了人类复杂的思维？

他也很喜欢在各大媒体上写一些通俗易懂的作品，如《纽约时报》、《费城询问报》、《洛杉矶时报》等。

他的“乱乱脑”的观点引起了同业学者以及普罗大众的广泛讨论，亚马逊网站上有许多读者留下了“长篇大论”。

他的主要著作包括《代数的头脑》(The Algebraic Mind)、《头脑的诞生》(The Birth of the Mind)、《诺顿心理学读本》(The Norton Psychology Reader)。

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