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Is the world getting better? Renowned cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker explains why human nature exists and we shouldn’t fear it. Watch the full interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZotBHOoKQ
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Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
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so what are the important things that help us to express the good parts and minimise the nasty parts – surely this is to do with the cultural, environmental, power structures that matter most.
Part of human nature is self awareness and reason. Part of human nature is to improve and change.
It’s more like human anti nature these days.
Up next: is Stephen pinker a massive corporate tool? With the lawyers who attempted to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein
Spoiler: yes
This is probably the most pertinent question I have seen for a long time, if at all. In fact, it supersedes the question "What constitutes an authentic human? The question posed here cuts to the flesh of the issue the answer to which is no, Universally, there is no such thing as human. Whom-ever first penned this question, well done!