http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/25/review-of-kluge-by-gary-marcus/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/25/review-of-kluge-by-gary-marcus/#comment-6547 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:56:51 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/review-of-kluge-by-gary-marcus/#comment-6547 Gary is a friend and I admire his work but I agree with some of your assessment of Kluge. I was disappointed with it compared to his previous books. It has some interesting practical advice but the theoretical points it makes are fairly superficial in my mind. It just didn’t grab me the way Birth of the Mind and The Algebraic Mind did. The brain was cobbled by evolution. Only so far that takes you. Same problem Gould ran into. The brain is full of spandrels. Hard to go anywhere from there. To his credit, Gary does come up with principles based on his idea, but it seems like a self-limiting idea not a big thought-provoking idea at all.

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