The Haphazard Mind

Explore insights from Gary Marcus, NYU psychologist, on mind shortcomings in his new book Kluge and their evolutionary significance.

Written byCarl Zimmer
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Today on bloggingheads, I talk to Gary Marcus, NYU psychologist and author of the new book Kluge, about all the telling ways in which our minds let us down, and what those shortcomings tell us about how it evolved.

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