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How Brains Become Minds: The Role Of Cultural Software (Thursday, April 23, 2009) (The rest of the talks from this series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncT3pE0pHDcc3RNgusAuIu49)
An exploration of how culture in general and language in particular shape our minds, installing perspectives and values, and building the thousands of cognitive micro-habits that constitute both our competences and our disabilities.
Post-lecture commentary by Steven Pinker
Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology Harvard University
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