In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wi...
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit that prompted Mark Ridley to write in the New York Times Book Review, "No other science writer makes me laugh so much. . . . [Pinker] deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him." The arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates some unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection, and challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, and that nature is good and modern society corrupting.
i listened to the audio book version. Could't beat to finish it because it is so trivial and crap for a layman like me. I shouldn't judge so quickly. But this is only for my own record.
简单地说，翻译存在三个问题，其一，译过来之后中文变得难懂。翻译不准确和保持了英文句法结构导致。其二，一些翻译错误，比如把it is impossible not翻译成“不可能”，把fall out of翻译为“落入”，把games翻译成游戏。其三，原文有些段落被删掉没有译出。 Pinker此书看似杂...
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总算是啃完了Steven Pinker的鸿篇巨作——《How The Mind Works》。见识过白云变苍狗，经历过沧海成桑田，困惑过人的言行，在他的引领下一窥人类心智的奥秘，明白人脑是如何工作的，了解行为背后隐藏的动机，就不失为一种答疑解惑的选择。不过，因为自身的知识储备不足之故，因...
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这本书用将近700页的篇幅讲解了一个定义：The mind is a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection to solve problems faced by our evolutionary ancestors in their foraging way of life. 这句话在Preface里首次读到，然后每个关键词一个章节，将近7...
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2 有用 庄常飞 2010-06-07 09:24:18
终于读完了！觉得写的好混乱，本来就不懂的看的越来越乱乎，懂的则没能学到什么（比这个写的深入好看的多得是），被纽约时报误导啊。
0 有用 來自雨城 2014-02-05 16:24:58
寫PAPER才看得，如果不寫PAPER的話很好看
0 有用 熊瞎子掰玉米 2010-07-22 15:47:07
i listened to the audio book version. Could't beat to finish it because it is so trivial and crap for a layman like me. I shouldn't judge so quickly. But this is only for my own record.
0 有用 arale 2021-06-16 22:47:55
“自我”依然在基因的强大影响之下，但那些关乎于自由、幸福、道德、自我实现的概念，已经偏离了基因复制的原始动机，有些时候甚至产生了矛盾。对于基因来说，如果被局限在当前的生命体里，没有产生副本，就是彻底的失败。对于个体来说，即使独自享受生活，也可以非常幸福。基因面对一个整天做爱，却就是不受孕的个体无可奈何；个体在所谓自我实现的过程中，也要不断处理甚至对抗受基因左右的各种情绪和欲望。
0 有用 e. 2008-01-26 00:00:36
好书，可惜没怎么坚持看。
0 有用 別に 2024-03-30 19:24:44 北京
看了眼 summary, 和他课上讲的内容差不多的一般般
0 有用 小久小久 2023-05-31 00:03:48 美国
非常啰嗦，读一读渐渐放弃= =
0 有用 arale 2021-06-16 22:47:55
“自我”依然在基因的强大影响之下，但那些关乎于自由、幸福、道德、自我实现的概念，已经偏离了基因复制的原始动机，有些时候甚至产生了矛盾。对于基因来说，如果被局限在当前的生命体里，没有产生副本，就是彻底的失败。对于个体来说，即使独自享受生活，也可以非常幸福。基因面对一个整天做爱，却就是不受孕的个体无可奈何；个体在所谓自我实现的过程中，也要不断处理甚至对抗受基因左右的各种情绪和欲望。
2 有用 治感冒不吃药 2017-02-10 07:32:53
跟language instinct一样啰嗦，喜欢堆砌例子，堆砌完了又说不清楚这些例子如何支持一个论点，一章看完压根总结不出来到底讲了什么。Pinker的每本书评分都那么高，但我真的是欣赏无力。#一个认知语言学学生的自白#
0 有用 A-QIU 2014-12-10 22:30:40
看前面几章其实有被惊艳到，但看到后面自己有些疲了，大概也进入了作者自己不是特别擅长的领域印象反而不那么好了。特别是对于艺术、音乐及宗教的描写。让我这个不那么热衷于这些的人都感觉到作者说的有些冷酷过分了。但前面几章真的很棒，而且他主要宣扬的两个观点我本人都非常认同所以总体而言还是值得！