![]() ''The mind is not the brain but what the brain does,'' he states. The big new idea he presents is that the old mind-body problem has been solved. ![]() He adds, ''Every idea in this book may turn out to be wrong, but that would be progress, because our old ideas were too vapid to be wrong.'' As he states at the outset, ''I wrote this book because dozens of mysteries of the mind, from mental images to romantic love, have recently been upgraded to problems (though there are still some mysteries too!).'' Steven Pinker hasn't explained everything in his compelling new book, ''How the Mind Works.'' As he is the first to concede, mysteries about the mind still abound, like consciousness, the self, free will, meaning, knowledge and morality.īut he explains a good deal. ![]()
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