دانلود کتاب Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds
by Louise Barrett
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عنوان فارسی: فراتر از مغز: چگونه بدن و محیط زیست شکل حیوانات و ذهن انسان است |
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Barrett begins with an overview of human cognitive adaptations and how these color our views of other species, brains, and minds. Considering when it is worth having a big brain--or indeed having a brain at all--she investigates exactly what brains are good at. Showing that the brain's evolutionary function guides action in the world, she looks at how physical structure contributes to cognitive processes, and she demonstrates how these processes employ materials and resources in specific environments.
Arguing that thinking and behavior constitute a property of the whole organism, not just the brain, Beyond the Brain illustrates how the body, brain, and cognition are tied to the wider world.