Ebook: Brain bugs: how the brain's flaws shape our lives

Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of the brain's imperfections in terms of its innermost workings and its evolutionary purposes. He then examines how our brains function--and malfunction--in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special-effects-addled world we have built for ourselves.;The memory web -- Memory upgrade needed -- Brain crashes -- Temporal distortions -- Fear factor -- Unreasonable reasoning -- The advertising bug -- The supernatural bug -- Debugging.