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Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions Paperback - 2007

by Read Montague

'A fascinating introduction' (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making

One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the mind's decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow computers originally programmed for survival with goals like food, water, and sex, why do we make choices that go against our own biological best interests? Where do values come from? What role do emotions play? From how we decide what we consume to the romantic, ethical, and financial choices we make, ReadMontague guides readers through a new approach to the mind that is both entertaining and illuminating.


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?A fascinating introduction? (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making

One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the mind?s decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow computers originally programmed for survival with goals like food, water, and sex, why do we make choices that go against our own biological best interests? Where do values come from? What role do emotions play? From how we decide what we consume to the romantic, ethical, and financial choices we make, Read Montague guides readers through a new approach to the mind that is both entertaining and illuminating.

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"A fascinating introduction" (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the mind's decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow computers originally programmed for survival with goals like food, water, and sex, why do we make choices that go against our own biological best interests? Where do values come from? What role do emotions play? From how we decide what we consume to the romantic, ethical, and financial choices we make, Read Montague guides readers through a new approach to the mind that is both entertaining and illuminating.

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  • Title Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions
  • Author Read Montague
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York
  • Date September 25, 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780452288843 / 0452288843
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.94 x 0.75 in (20.78 x 15.09 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Decision making, Choice (Psychology)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153.83

Media reviews

'A fascinating introduction to an important new area of research in the science of the mind.'
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University; The Blank Slate

'CompellingMontague knows that cool reason is not enough to explain decisions.'
Antonio Damasio, University of Southern California; author of Descartes' Error

'A gripping story of what makes me, me.'
Patricia Churchland, MacArthur 'genius' award winner

'I consider Read to be quite exceptional.'
Francis Crick, Nobel Laureate, co-discoverer of DNA

About the author

Read Montague is a professor in the department of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab, and director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. He is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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