According to Googlebooks
"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."
I cannot wait to read this book and everything else by David Linden.He's my second favourite neuroscientist. LOL!
(Context http://sciencelol.blogspot.com/2011/05/dreric-kandel.html)
Lol!
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