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  1. The Atheist

    Where's Old Pinky These Days?

    Steven Pinker?? Hello?? Odd. He seems to have gone a bit quiet. There he was only a few years back explaining how the world was so much better than it had ever been. I really want to talk to that guy.
  2. angrysoba

    Chomsky and Krauss in Conversation

    I wasn't quite sure where to put this video because a number of topics come up, so I put it here in one of the more popular subforums where it is likely to be seen by a lot of people. I think these topics are of general interest to a lot of people here. Lawrence Krauss introduces Chomsky and...
  3. C

    Jared Diamond: World's Worst Mistake?

    Just reread parts of Jared Diamond's essay - Agriculture: World's Worst Mistake. I was impressed with this essay when I was younger, but now that I'm older, I'm starting to wonder if it is seriously misleading. Jared Diamond does admit that it isn't solely just agriculture that is the...
  4. Nick227

    Language and the Notion of An Inner Agent of Causation

    Whilst reading Steven Pinker's last book recently I was intrigued to see him apparently refer to grammar as a means by which free will and the notion of an inner agent of causation are created, or maintained. It seems to me that Pinker is saying that the action of grammar here is to attribute...

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