****/*****                                                                                                                                  Science How Mind Works Steven Pinker             Human mind, as distinct from brain but ineluctably linked to it (like digestion with gut, respiration with lungs), defines and distinguishes our species. We not only reproduce, eat, defecate but think of past and fret over future. We speculate on imaginary situations and how these could have affected our past and might change our future. We think of beauty, we enjoy and create art and literature, we deeply value mor...

****/*****                                                                                                                                        Religion/Science Religion Explained-The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits & Ancestors Pascal Boyer Religion in some form is ubiquitous. Religious concepts across...

*** 1/2 /*****                                                                                                                       Science The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature VS Ramachandran VS Rama Chandran, a neuroscientist, attempts to unravel the mystery of human mind in this book. His methods of investigation are ‘low-tech’, as he emphasises in the preface. He is enamoured of Sherlock Holmes and follows his mystery-solving techniques in his cl...

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