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03:46 The distance between Noam Chomsky and evolutionary psychology
09:14 How Chomsky snuck in to Bob’s 9th-grade English class
12:33 Steve’s book, “The Stuff of Thought”
20:08 How language reveals the structure of the human mind
37:52 Why has violence been declining for centuries?
49:59 Is morality something we just make up?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Steven Pinker (Harvard University, The Better Angels of Our Nature)
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Recorded on November 16, 2009
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What is that thing Steven is holding?
How old is this video?
Holding a 19th-century phone to your ear for an hour…………………..
Great to hear Pinker talking about his own intellectual formation now that he’s already been so influential himself.
29:45 this takes me back to being 18 and having my mind blown reading “the way the mind works” for the first time
Bob, you're particularly funny and charming in this vid. Kudos.
Why is the quality so low?