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Happiness of Pursuit Hardback - 2012

by Shimon Edelman

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When fishing for happiness, catch and release. Remember these seven words -- they are the keys to being happy. So says Shimon Edelman, an expert on psychology and the mind.

In The Happiness of Pursuit, Edelman offers a fundamental understanding of pleasure and joy via the brain. Using the concept of the mind as a computing device, he unpacks how the human brain is highly active, involved in patterned networks, and constantly learning from experience. As our brains predict the future through pursuit of experience, we are rewarded both in real time and in the long run. Essentially, as Edelman discovers, it's the journey, rather than the destination, that matters.

The idea that cognition is computation -- the brain is a machine -- is nothing new of course. But, as Edelman argues, the mind is actually a bundle of ongoing computations, essentially, the brain being one of many possible substrates that can support them. Edelman makes the case for these claims by constructing a conceptual toolbox that offers readers a glimpse of the computations underlying the mind's faculties: perception, motivation and emotions, action, memory, thinking, social cognition, learning and language. It is this collection of tools that enables us to discover how and why happiness happens.

An informative, accessible, and witty tour of the mind, The Happiness of Pursuit offers insights to a thorough understanding of what minds are, how they relate to each other and to the world, and how we can make the best of it all.

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  • Title Happiness of Pursuit
  • Author Shimon Edelman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2012-01-31
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780465022243 / 0465022243
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.1 in (21.08 x 14.99 x 2.79 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Psychological
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Cognition, Thought and thinking
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011039326
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153

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  • Choice, 07/01/2012, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2011, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2012, Page 5

About the author

Shimon Edelman is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He has taught at universities in Israel, England, the United States, and South Korea. He is the author of Computing the Mind and Representation and Recognition in Vision, along with dozens of scholarly publications in theoretical neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, all focusing on reverse-engineering the human brain. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
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