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The Language Game - How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World by Morten H. Christiansen; Nick Chater
Category: Science
The Language Game overturns established thought, showing how our language derives from the chaos of improvisation rather than from a built-in grammar or language instinct Drawing on wonderfully entertaining and persuasive examples from across the world it explains how culture has evolved, and what this ...Show more
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater
Category: Languages and Reference
'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat is language?Why do we have it?Why does that matter?Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accompl ...Show more
The Mind Is Flat - The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind by Nick Chater
Category: Science
Most of us assume that our thoughts, desires and behaviour arise from the murky depths of our minds, and, if only we could access this inner world, we could truly understand ourselves. For more than a century, psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have struggled, using methods from psychother ...Show more
The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind by Nick Chater
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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 Scientis ...Show more
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