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The Mind is Flat - The Illusion of Mental Depth and The Improvised Mind (Paperback)
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The Mind is Flat - The Illusion of Mental Depth and The Improvised Mind (Paperback)
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A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it
could change your life 'An astonishing achievement. Nick Chater has
blown my mind' Tim Harford 'A total assault on all lingering
psychiatric and psychoanalytic notions of mental depths ... Light
the touchpaper and stand well back' New Scientist We all like to
think we have a hidden inner life. Most of us assume that our
beliefs and desires arise from the murky depths of our minds, and,
if only we could work out how to access this mysterious world, we
could truly understand ourselves. For more than a century,
psychologists and psychiatrists have struggled to discover what
lies below our mental surface. In The Mind Is Flat, pre-eminent
behavioural scientist Nick Chater reveals that this entire
enterprise is utterly misguided. Drawing on startling new research
in neuroscience, behavioural psychology and perception, he shows
that we have no hidden depths to plumb, and unconscious thought is
a myth. Instead, we generate our ideas, motives and thoughts in the
moment. This revelation explains many of the quirks of human
behaviour - for example why our supposedly firm political beliefs,
personal preferences and even our romantic attractions are
routinely proven to be inconsistent and changeable. As the reader
discovers, through mind-bending visual examples and
counterintuitive experiments, we are all characters of our own
creation, constantly improvising our behaviour based on our past
experiences. And, as Chater shows us, recognising this can be
liberating.
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