Will there be someone on hand to speak for Intelligent Design? If not,
I can't go.
--J
On 2/27/07, herownsourgelatine <dlinden_at_jhmi.edu> wrote:
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> You are invited to a book release party for David Linden's "The Accidental
> Mind" published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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> Food, Drink, Frivolity, Book Signing and a (Mercifully Brief) Reading
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> 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
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> Children welcome
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> Books will be available for purchase.
> Proceeds to Amnesty International and The Nature Conservancy
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> 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
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> to create both religious and scientific explanations."
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> More at: http://accidentalmind.org
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Received on 2007-02-27 13:22:20