| Description |
309 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Forward / Wray Herbert -- Introduction: Hacking the cognitive compass -- Certainty and the seduction of chance -- Drifting, discounting, and escaping -- Motivation, restraint, and regret -- Social ebbs and influential flows -- Memory and modeling -- Nothing so pure as action. |
| Summary |
Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy." |
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Happiness.
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Logic.
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Desire.
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Neurosciences.
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| ISBN |
9781616144838 paperback alkaline paper |
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1616144831 paperback alkaline paper |
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