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Brain Bugs
- How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives
- By: Dean Buonomano
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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With its trillions of connections, the human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build, but it’s far from perfect: our memory is unreliable; we can’t multiply large sums in our heads; advertising manipulates our judgment; we tend to distrust people who are different from us; supernatural beliefs and superstitions are hard to shake; we prefer instant gratification to long-term gain; and what we presume to be rational decisions are often anything but.
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Superficial, but mostly correct
- By Sean on 09-03-11
- Brain Bugs
- How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives
- By: Dean Buonomano
- Narrated by: William Hughes
Fun, Not Perfect
Reviewed: 04-11-21
This was a fun read/listen, if you’re into fun pop science books you’ll probably enjoy it. I was frustrated that the reasoning and source material seem to fall down a bit once the book gets to religion. The author quotes Hutchins and Dawkins but not Geertz, which I see as a red flag. From there it goes downhill with all sorts of assumptions about religion in culture being taken for granted without the necessary foundation of religious anthropology. So, if that’s an area you know a bit about, maybe skip that chapter to avoid yelling at the narrator repeatedly!
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