When fishing for happiness, catch and release. Remember these seven
words,they are the keys to being happy. So says Shimon Edelman, an
expert on psychology and the mind. In The Happiness of Pursuit ,
Edelman offers a fundamental understanding of pleasure and joy via
the brain. Using the concept of the mind as a computing device, he
unpacks how the human brain is highly active, involved in patterned
networks, and constantly learning from experience. As our brains
predict the future through pursuit of experience, we are rewarded
both in real time and in the long run. Essentially, as Edelman
discovers, it's the journey, rather than the destination, that
matters. The idea that cognition is computation,the brain is a
machine,is nothing new of course. But, as Edelman argues, the mind
is actually a bundle of ongoing computations, essentially, the
brain being one of many possible substrates that can support them.
Edelman makes the case for these claims by constructing a
conceptual toolbox that offers readers a glimpse of the
computations underlying the mind's faculties: perception,
motivation and emotions, action, memory, thinking, social
cognition, learning and language. It is this collection of tools
that enables us to discover how and why happiness happens. An
informative, accessible, and witty tour of the mind, The Happiness
of Pursuit offers insights to a thorough understanding of what
minds are, how they relate to each other and to the world, and how
we can make the best of it all.
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