Steven Pinker

How the Mind Works

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  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    that the mind is a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection to solve the problems faced by our evolutionary ancestors in their foraging way of life.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 years ago
    When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.
  • jimena astridhas quoted3 years ago
    that the mind is a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection to solve the problems faced by our evolutionary ancestors in their foraging way of life
  • jimena astridhas quoted3 years ago
    The linguist Noam Chomsky once suggested that our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    But the rules of common sense, like the categories of common sense, are frustratingly hard to set down. Even the most straightforward ones fail to capture our everyday reasoning.
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    but there’s nothing common about common sense. Somehow it must find its way into a human or robot brain. And common sense is not simply an almanac about life that can be dictated by a teacher or downloaded like an enormous database. No database could list all the facts we tacitly know, and no one ever taught them to us.
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    “A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    But artificial shape recognizers are still no match for the ones in our heads
  • asasiprhas quoted7 years ago
    The camera does not lie; left to its own devices, it renders outdoor scenes as milk and indoor scenes as mud
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