Title: Brain tricks : coping with your defective brain /
Authors: Weiner, David L.
Publisher: Prometheus Books,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Thought and thinking; Human information processing.; Brain; Self-actualization (Psychology)
Contents: Process: Brain -- Life as a lottery -- What's behind the universe? -- Our purpose -- Hope for the future -- Delusions of maturity -- Oour propensities for mental and physical violence -- Brain as machine -- Basic economics of wealth -- Sex as robotics -- Enigma of death -- Human land grab -- Game of choice -- Brainwashing -- Frightening scales of reality -- Accepting ourselves and others -- Our sameness -- Essence of religion -- what's important -- Flawed brain -- Human genome -- Numbers scale -- Answers: Getting down to basics -- Our six spindled programs -- Speed of our spindled programs -- Recognizing and accepting our spindled programs -- Our seven functional programs -- Tricking your brain when your spindled programs are acting up.