Biographies: Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology at New York University, and Director of the NYU Center for Child Language, has published extensively on the nature and origins of human cognition, in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Cognitive Psychology, as well as The New York Times and Wired Magazine. His books include The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science, The Birth of the Mind: How A Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexity of Human Thought, and Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice in 2008.
Talk title: Can the human mind be improved upon?
What do humans do well, and what do they poorly? An overview of the strengths and weakness of the human mind, with special attention to how it got to be that way, and what we might do about it.
