Of course, genes can’t pull the levers of our …– Steven Pinker
Of course, genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is
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Of course, genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is
Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance,
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it
It’s likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the
Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly.
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
There’s guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child’s peer group is a far greater
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
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