2008-08-05 Disappointed

Psychology 101 - that's the level of thinking of "MAKING UP THE MIND". Therefore, I couldn't find anything in it to rave about. In his book, Chris Frith offers a light-hearted account of several basic principles of neuropsychology. He provides examples of illusions and fallacies. He points out that much learning occurs by reward and punishment. Can anybody get excited about such rudimentary information? His main message is perhaps that the brain makes "models" of things, and that sometimes the models are wrong. He reasons that truth and progress can emerge from the models, but so can deception and mass delusions. So what? He ends the book by advising the reader to "just go back to the party and have fun". I feel that a well-informed reader probably should stay at the party from beginning to end, rather than waste her time in reading this vacuous book.