Today on bloggingheads, I talk to Gary Marcus, NYU psychologist and author of the new book Kluge, about all the telling ways in which our minds let us down, and what those shortcomings tell us about how it evolved.
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Originally posted by Seth Herd at Developing Intelligence
On February 24, 2009, at 12:00 PM
I disagree with many of Gary Marcus's theories, but I think that his book Kluge is important, entertaining, and even accurate. The book's main thesis is that if God had designed the human mind, He would've…
And by golly, he spelled it right, too. "Kluge", the German word (pr. "kloo-guh") for "clever", not "kludge", which to my phonetic sense rhymes with "fudge".
Sorry; pet peeve.
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