Kluge

Det här verkar vara en genuint intressant bok: Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, av Gary Marcus.

Newsweek skriver bl.a. om den:

In his attempt to define the \"klugey-ness\" of the human mind, Marcus\nwould have us look no further than our memories, which he describes as\n\"the mother of all kluges.\" Unlike computers, we cannot readily\nrecollect all that we've remembered. Turns out, our memory is driven by\ncues. We need hints and context to remember where we put our purse\n(\"Retrace your steps\"). To free associate from one memory to the next\nmay, Marcus writes, \"lead depressed people to seek out depressive\nactivities, such as drinking or listening to songs of lost love, which\npresumably deepens the gloom as well.\"

Vad är en \"kluge\" (eller \"kludge\")? Wikipedia säger:

[It is] a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty. In engineering, a kludge is a workaround, typically using unrelated parts cobbled together. Especially in computer programs, a kludge is often used to fix an unanticipated problem in an earlier kludge; this is essentially a kind of cruft.