Monday, June 22, 2009

Stephen Pinker

One of them is a simple logical point that no matter how important learning and culture and socialization are, they don't happen by magic.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

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