David J. Linden - The Accidental Mind How Brain Evolution Has G

General Information =================== Title............: The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God Author...........: David J. Linden Read By..........: Ray Porter Genre............: Neuroscience Publisher........: University Press Audiobooks Year.............: 2010 Unabridged.......: Yes Language.........: English Original Media Information ========================== Media............: Audible enhanced (.aax) File Information ================ Number of MP3s...: 60 Total Duration...: 7 hours 57 minutes Total MP3 Size...: 221 MB Ripped by........: me Encoder..........: LAME 3.98 Encoder Settings.: CBR 64 kbit/s 22500 Hz Mono ID3 Tags.........: v1.1, v2.3 (includes embedded album art) Book Description ================ You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones... to which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design - and in its place gives us a compelling explanation of how the brain's serendipitous evolution has resulted in nothing short of our humanity. A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, The Accidental Mind shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. Moreover, Linden tells us how the constraints of evolved brain design have ultimately led to almost every transcendent human foible: our long childhoods, our extensive memory capacity, our search for love and long-term relationships, our need to create compelling narrative, and, ultimately, the universal cultural impulse to create both religious and scientific explanations. With forays into evolutionary biology, this analysis of mental function answers some of our most common questions about how we've come to be who we are. The book is published by Harvard University Press.

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yazz00 (2011-02-09)

Excellent book, a real gem, similar themes to "Invisible Gorilla". The performance is also really good.
The rip quality is OK, but last few secondes of a few files are missing, it doesn't really spoil the book but is annoying.

kritias (2011-04-19)

I lol'd
This guy has no clue what he's talking about.
There is nothing "accidental" about the human mind, lol

behold_the_radiant_brow (2011-05-04)

@Kritias I am sure your rebuttal of his thesis in the peer-reviewed literature will be a significant milestone in your career as a neurologist. It is about time somebody stood up to these scientists with their 'evidence' and their 'logic' and lets them know that everything is perfectly designed by a loving creator. This, of course, assumes that your mind is not deluding you somewhat as to your capabilities. I am sure that your work on countering the dominant consensus of neurobiology with quick posts on webfora will only show its true depth and importance when we as a species attain the rarefied heights that are currently vouchsafed to you alone. Are you planning to use your future award money from the Nobel committee for a foundation that will spread your deep and compelling insights to a new generation of enlightened minds such as yours?

HalukAka (2012-12-01)

Someone, SEED pleaaase... And @behold_the_radiant_brow, dude you gotta chill out. Do you really think, in your right mind, that that kritias douchebag can read and understand all those long sentences? :)