The Mind is Flat - Hardcover

Chater, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241208440 ISBN 13: 9780241208441

Publisher: allen lane uk, 2018

Synopsis

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 idea

About this edition

• Publisher: allen lane uk
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0241208440
• ISBN 13: 9780241208441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272