The Mind is Flat

Vi kan alle sammen godt lide at tro, at vi er dybere end som så. At vi har et skjult indre liv. Med "The Mind is Flat" viser Nick Chater os, at den forestilling er en myte. Vi får en nyfortolkning af, hvordan sindet fungerer og hvordan du kan bruge den viden til at ændre dit liv. Med basis i ny forskning inden for neurovidenskab, bliver vi af adfærdsforsker Nick Chater guidet igennem hvordan og hvorfor, der ikke ligger noget under overfladen i de inderste dybder af vores sind. Igennem bogen "The Mind is Flat" lærer vi at ideer, motiver og tanker, er noget der genereres i øjeblikket. Det forklarer store dele af vores menneskelige adfærd, og også hvorfor vi på trods af etik, moral og overbevisninger handler inkonsekvent og foranderligt. På underholdende maner guides læseren igennem visuelle eksempler, kontraintuitive eksperimenter og erkender derigennem, at vi som mennesker improviserer vores adfærd baseret på tidligere erfaringer. Bogen viser dig også hvordan du kan bruge den viden til din fordel.

Vi kan alle sammen godt lide at tro, at vi er dybere end som så. At vi har et skjult indre liv. Med "The Mind is Flat" viser Nick Chater os, at den forestilling er en myte. Vi får en nyfortolkning af, hvordan sindet fungerer og hvordan du kan bruge den viden til at ændre dit liv. Med basis i ny forskning inden for neurovidenskab, bliver vi af adfærdsforsker Nick Chater guidet igennem hvordan og hvorfor, der ikke ligger noget under overfladen i de inderste dybder af vores sind. Igennem bogen "The Mind is Flat" lærer vi at ideer, motiver og tanker, er noget der genereres i øjeblikket. Det forklarer store dele af vores menneskelige adfærd, og også hvorfor vi på trods af etik, moral og overbevisninger handler inkonsekvent og foranderligt. På underholdende maner guides læseren igennem visuelle eksempler, kontraintuitive eksperimenter og erkender derigennem, at vi som mennesker improviserer vores adfærd baseret på tidligere erfaringer. Bogen viser dig også hvordan du kan bruge den viden til din fordel.

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 ideas, motives and thoughts in the moment. This revelation explains many of the quirks of human behaviour - for example why our supposedly firm political beliefs, personal preferences and even our romantic attractions are routinely proven to be inconsistent and changeable. As the reader discovers, through mind-bending visual examples and counterintuitive experiments, we are all characters of our own creation, constantly improvising our behaviour based on our past experiences. And, as Chater shows us, recognising this can be liberating.

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 ideas, motives and thoughts in the moment. This revelation explains many of the quirks of human behaviour - for example why our supposedly firm political beliefs, personal preferences and even our romantic attractions are routinely proven to be inconsistent and changeable. As the reader discovers, through mind-bending visual examples and counterintuitive experiments, we are all characters of our own creation, constantly improvising our behaviour based on our past experiences. And, as Chater shows us, recognising this can be liberating.