You are invited to a book release party for David Linden's "The Accidental
Mind" published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Food, Drink, Frivolity, Book Signing and a (Mercifully Brief) Reading
Sunday, April 1, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
At the home of Julia Kim Smith and Scott Smith
1620 The Terraces, Baltimore, MD 21209
Directions and map:
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~scott/directions/
410 664 2984
Children welcome
Books will be available for purchase.
Proceeds to Amnesty International and The Nature Conservancy
Book Description:
"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."
More at:
http://accidentalmind.org
Received on 2007-02-27 06:22:51