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>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 15 17:55:26 2021 No.17296408 [View] File: 1016 KB, 2008x2400, 102111_Pinker_344.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Worth reading?

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 15:06:45 2020 No.16153045 [View]
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>Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 14:20:35 2020 No.16055672 [View]
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>"Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players." [Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, 1997]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 17:00:29 2020 No.15870612 [View] File: 1016 KB, 2008x2400, 102111_Pinker_344.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15870560 >>15869416

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 21:57:04 2020 No.15802095 [View] File: 1016 KB, 2008x2400, 102111_Pinker_344.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can anyone give me a QRD on Steven Pinker? He came before Peterson and Harris so I dont know anything about his ideas and memes

ITT: Unpopular /lit/ opinions Anonymous Fri May 29 19:20:54 2020 No.15482905 [View]
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>Steven Pinker is right about virtually everything
>Slavoj Zizek is an entertaining figure but his ideas are one hundred percent useless, totally unfalsifiable, have literally no practical application to the real world

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 10 21:17:12 2020 No.14511913 [View] File: 1016 KB, 2008x2400, pinker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What's the IQ threshold where "facts and logic" writers go from being obviously wrong and annoying to always irrefutable?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 29 15:59:29 2019 No.13906498 [View] File: 1016 KB, 2008x2400, 102111_Pinker_344.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >dude everything is great, we live in the best society ever bro How is this hack fraud taken seriously in academia?

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