Science and morality are separate spheres of reasoning.Ideas are gifts, communication is giving, the speaker is the sender, the audience is the recipient, knowing is having.It is the hunt for universal inherited characteristics of the Homo Saipan.

In order to figure out our specialized information processing tool, we can use psychology to search for what the brain was designed to do. “Everything you’ve learned… as ‘Obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe”.Contents of the world are not just there for knowing but have to be grasped with suitable mental machinery.A vast text that attempts to explain what the mind is, where it comes from, and how it lets us see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art religion, and philosophy.The Journal write up includes important messages and crucial passages from the book. Though rest assured, I am not attempting to take any credit for the main ideas below. Sometimes, to my own fault, quotes are interlaced with my own words. Written informally, the notes contain a mesh and mix of quotes and my own thoughts on the book. My notes are a reflection of the journal write up above. This is my book summary of How the Mind Works. Pinker posits that the mind is what the brain does, and as scientist learn more about the brain and genetics we will have answers to the hardest questions like what the brain has to do with Phenomenology. Our ancestral environment had obstacles, and the Homos capacities for seeing, social living, throwing things, and cooking food helped us overcome them. Combining the theories of natural selection and computational theory of mind, evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker shares how the mind thought of as a system of organs, designed over long periods of time, functions to solve the problems of a species within the ecological niche such as the Homo Sapiens.

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