...but what else would you expect from a book with a title like that?Pinker has some fine insights into our thought processes, and it got me thinking on many an occasion.However, there did seem to be a few things that he didn't touch upon which I found unsatisfying. Here's one: He spoke of the "language of music", but there is a lower-level discussion to be had; *Why* do we associate low, deep sounds with power, foreboding and fear? *Why* do high, piercing sounds denote energy, movement and alarm? Do these relate to our distant past in the wild, or are there other psycho-acoustic reasons?Couple this book with Robert Wright's "NonZero", and you pretty much have an abbreviated profile of the driving forces behind the mind of the modern human.The mind is an amazing thing.