How the Mind Works
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"How the Mind Works" Quotes

By Steven Pinker

psychology | 660 pages | Published in NaN

ISBN_13: 9780393318487

Quotes

The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the problems faced by our ancestors in their foraging way of life.

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The mind is not a blank slate, but neither is it written in stone.

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The human mind is a remarkably efficient and reliable computer.

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The mind is a complex system of organs, each with a specialized function, and each designed by natural selection to serve a function.

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The mind is modular, with many parts cooperating to generate a train of thought, emotion, or behavior.

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The emotions are the software and the bodily and facial expressions the output the mind uses to control the body in the service of goals.

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The mind is a complex system designed to extract information from the environment, to make sense of the world, and to act in it to achieve our goals.

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The mind is a kluge, and as we shall see, many of its features are poorly designed or incompatible with each other.

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The mind is an information-processing system, and that the tasks it can perform are the result of evolutionary adaptation.

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The mind is a product of natural selection and that you can't understand it if you don't understand how it was designed.

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