Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect How We Make Decisions

Name: Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect How We Make Decisions
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ISBN: 9780452288843

ISBN-10: 0452288843

ISBN-13: 9780452288843

Edition: 2007

Authors: Read Montague

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A fascinating introduction (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the minds decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow computers originally programmed for survival with goals like food, water, and sex, why do we make choices that go against our own biological best interests? Where do values come from? What role do emotions play? From how we decide what we consume to the romantic, ethical, and financial choices we make, Read Montague guides readers through a new approach to the mind that is…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.27" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

READ MONTAGUEis a professor in the department of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab, and director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. His research has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal.