The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates The Complexities of Human Thought

By Gary F. Marcus. 2004

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Mapping the Moral Domain (2011, background): “Even if all moral systems are social constructions, they are constructed by people whose minds are not at all like blank slates (Marcus, 2004).”
The evolutionary genetics of personality (2007, background): “The watershed metaphor breaks down a bit at this point, because it fails to reflect the fact that most mutations are pleiotropic in their effects (Marcus, 2004): each mutation will tend to disrupt several downstream traits.”
A critique of pure learning and what artificial neural networks can learn from animal brains (2019, background): “Similar synergy may accelerate the acquisition of language by children: The innate circuitry in areas like Wernicke ’ s and Broca ’ s may provide the scaffolding, enabling the speci ﬁ c syntax and vocabulary of any speci ﬁ c language to be learned rapidly 29,30 .”
Neural reuse: A fundamental organizational principle of the brain (2010, unknown): “Keywords: brain imaging; plasticity; evolution”
Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018, background): “…Acquisition Device should be viewed precisely as an innate learning mechanism, and nativists such as Pinker, Peter Marler (Marler, 2004) and myself (Marcus, 2004) have frequently argued for a view in which a significant part of a creature’s innate armamentarium consists not of specific knowledge…”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “However, as we note further on in section 6.5, any given linguistic phenomenon is likely to arise from a combination of multiple constraints that cut across these groupings, and, thus, across different kinds of brain mechanisms.”