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Steven Pinker's book, "How the Mind Works", is a study of the human brain, how it works, and why it works the way it does. In eight chapters it reconstructs the brain from the bottom up, starting from the simplest of processes and combining them into the complex thoughts and behaviors we experience.
How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by the Canadian-American cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms.
Seeing Is Believing – Not. Nicholas Silins, associate professor of philosophy, examines the mind through questions relating to perception, drawing on the fields of philosophy, vision science and the theory of probability to answer how exactly we learn from our visual experiences of the world.
If you’ve ever wondered how the human mind works, you’ll be interested to know that it does so basically in two ways: Consciously and unconsciously. And it’s the unconscious mind that’s the most fascinating, as much of what you do every day is automatically carried out by it.
This fact sheet is a basic introduction to the human brain. It can help you understand how the healthy brain works, how to keep your brain healthy, and what happens when the brain doesn't work like it should. The Structure of the Brain
Formulating a theory of the brain, the Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind, aiming to explain the structure and dynamics of the human brain.
How does the brain work? The brain sends and receives chemical and electrical signals throughout the body. Different signals control different processes, and your brain interprets each. Some make you feel tired, for example, while others make you feel pain.