The Accidental Mind

In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design. The Accidental Mind gives us a compelling explanation of how the brain’s evolution has resulted in the nature of our humanity and shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather an agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of...
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In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design. The Accidental Mind gives us a compelling explanation of how the brain’s evolution has resulted in the nature of our humanity and shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather an agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. The book is published by Harvard University Press.