Steven Poole’s review of ‘The Mind is Flat’, by Nick
Chater (Guardian Weekly, 13 April). “Our richness of experience seems to be a
construct.” Why not, experience seems to be a richness of experience?
“”Emotions are probably generated when we notice changes in our bodily state.”
Probably? What else? “Memory is a highly fallible recreation.” In what sense,
fallible? Isn’t it all we’ve got? “The brain can attend to only one thing at a
time.” So how come we connect words and music in a song? “The mind is a
free-jazzing blank slate.” Conclusion: no, the mind is not flat.
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