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The Blind Storyteller - How We Reason About Human Nature (Hardcover)
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The Blind Storyteller - How We Reason About Human Nature (Hardcover)
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Do newborns think? Do they know that "three" is greater than "two"?
Do they prefer "right" to "wrong"? What about emotions-can newborns
recognize happiness or anger? If the answer to these questions is
yes, then how are our inborn thoughts and feelings encoded in our
bodies? Could they persist after we die? Going all the way back to
ancient Greece, human nature and the mind-body problem have been
the topics of fierce scholarly debates. But laypeople also have
strong opinions about such matters. Most people believe, for
example, that newborn babies don't know the difference between
right and wrong-such knowledge, they insist, can only be learned.
For emotions, they presume the opposite-that our capacity to feel
fear, for example, is both inborn and embodied. These beliefs are
stories we tell ourselves about what we know and who we are. They
reflect and influence our understanding of ourselves and others and
they guide every aspect of our lives. In The Blind Storyteller, the
cognitive psychologist Iris Berent exposes a chasm between our
intuitive understanding of human nature and the conclusions
emerging from science. Her conclusions show that many of our
stories are misguided. Just like Homer, we, the storyteller, are
blind. How could we get it so wrong? In a twist that could have
come out of a Greek tragedy, Berent proposes that our errors are
our fate. These mistakes emanate from the very principles that make
our minds tick: Our blindness to human nature is rooted in human
nature itself. An intellectual journey that draws on philosophy,
anthropology, linguistics, cognitive science, and Berent's own
cutting-edge research, The Blind Storyteller grapples with a host
of provocative questions, from why we are so afraid of zombies, to
whether dyslexia is "just in our heads," from what happens to us
when we die, to why we are so infatuated with our brains. The end
result is a startling new perspective on the age-old nature/nurture
debate-and on what it means to be human.
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