Full name: The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain

Author: Nick Chater Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction, Science, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780300238723 030023872X

In a radical reinterpretation of how the mind works, an eminent behavioral scientist reveals the illusion of mental depth Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental "surface" of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that govern our thoughts, ideas, and actions, and that to know this depth is to know ourselves. In this profoundly original book, behavioral scientist Nick Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences. Engaging the listener with eye-opening experiments, the author first demolishes our intuitive sense of how our mind works, then argues for a positive interpretation of the brain as a ceaseless and creative improviser. Similar books: Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer by John C. Lilly The Adventure of Self-Discovery by Stanislav Grof Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson The Doctor and the Soul by Viktor E. Frankl A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis The Social Animal by David Brooks The Brain by David Eagleman Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber The Divided Self by R. D. Laing The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof The Holotropic Mind by Stanislav Grof How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel M. Wegner The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland Into the Silent Land by Paul Broks