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- Book Title
- Reason and Less : Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics
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- Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
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- Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Consumer Behavior, General
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MIT Press
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0262045478
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9780262045476
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Book Title
Reason and Less : Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Consumer Behavior, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
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1 in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
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2021-017752
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23
Dewey Decimal
153.43
Table Of Content
Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii I The Rational Animal 1 Food, Sex, Politics, and the Rational Animal 3 2 The Enigma of Rationality: Fallen Angel or Risen Ape? 27 II Kinds of Minds 3 Reflexes, Homeostasis, and the Autonomic Mind 41 4 The Instinctive Mind 49 5 The Associative Mind: More than Instincts, Less than Reason 71 6 The Reasoning Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Coherence 95 III Reasoning with the Cognitive Mind 7 Logical Inference: Heuristic and Analytical Systems 125 8 Conceptual Inference in the Real World: From Science to Politics 143 IV The Tethered Mind 9 The Instinctive Mind Resurrected: Modularity, Reciprocity, and Blended Response 161 10 Kinds of Brains: Of Mice, Monkeys, and Men 191 11 Feelings: Chocolate, Lust, and Coherence 221 12 Control Structures: Who Is in Charge of the Tethered Mind? 253 V What Color Is Your Bubble? Why Changing Minds Is Hard 13 When Failures of Belief Revision Are Less than Motivated Reasoning or Sloppy Reasoning 281 14 Global Belief Revision Is Constrained by Neural Maturation 309 VI What Follows from the Tethered Mind? 15 Concerns, Consequences, and Conclusions 331 Notes 341 Bibliography 353 Index 403
Synopsis
A new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less , Vinod Goel explains the workings of the tethered mind. Reason does not float on top of our biology but is tethered to evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. After describing the conceptual and neuroanatomical basis of each system, Goel shows how they interact to generate a blended response. Goel's commonsense account drives human behavior back into the biology, where it belongs, and provides a richer set of tools for understanding how we pursue food, sex, and politics. Goel takes the reader on a journey through psychology (cognitive, behavioral, developmental, and evolutionary), neuroscience, philosophy, ethology, economics, and political science to explain the workings of the tethered mind. One key insight that holds everything together is that feelings-generated in old, widely conserved brain stem structures-are evolution's solution to initiating and selecting all behaviors, and provide the common currency for the different systems to interact. Reason is as much about feelings as are lust and the taste of chocolate cake. All systems contribute to behavior and the overall control structure is one that maximizes pleasure and minimizes displeasure. Tethered rationality has some sobering and challenging implications for such real-world human behaviors as climate change denial, Trumpism, racism, or sexism. They cannot be changed simply by targeting beliefs but will require more drastic measures, the nature of which depends on the specific behavior in question. Having an accurate model of human behavior is the crucial first step., A new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less , Vinod Goel explains the workings of the tethered mind. Reason does not float on top of our biology but is tethered to evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. After describing the conceptual and neuroanatomical basis of each system, Goel shows how they interact to generate a blended response. Goel's commonsense account drives human behavior back into the biology, where it belongs, and provides a richer set of tools for understanding how we pursue food, sex, and politics. Goel takes the reader on a journey through psychology (cognitive, behavioral, developmental, and evolutionary), neuroscience, philosophy, ethology, economics, and political science to explain the workings of the tethered mind. One key insight that holds everything together is that feelings--generated in old, widely conserved brain stem structures--are evolution's solution to initiating and selecting all behaviors, and provide the common currency for the different systems to interact. Reason is as much about feelings as are lust and the taste of chocolate cake. All systems contribute to behavior and the overall control structure is one that maximizes pleasure and minimizes displeasure. Tethered rationality has some sobering and challenging implications for such real-world human behaviors as climate change denial, Trumpism, racism, or sexism. They cannot be changed simply by targeting beliefs but will require more drastic measures, the nature of which depends on the specific behavior in question. Having an accurate model of human behavior is the crucial first step.
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