The RSA
For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old ones.
Note – This video contains strong language.
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as Noam Chomsky says " speech is a tool of thought", and so to understand the origin, off complex grammar , one must take there bitch ass back to school
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that speech is fucking awesome 😉
PINKERSLAP!
fucking brilliant
Vsauce
Pinker is one of the most eloquent and skilled speakers out there so it's hilarious to hear him say all these crude phrases lol
we say after dark as we intend to say "after it gets dark" not literally after dark.
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You're not as smart as you think you are
this was fucking intersting. i call that sarcastic ephymistic dysphemism to express how interesting it was
Very interesting, definitely worth the watch! Also, we share the same last name haha, but great talk!
Thank You, Vsauce !
There was one gentleman in the audience that was truly enjoy himself during this lecture.
Pinker, the only language you know is English! It is amazing that growing up in Quebec you never even learned French. Your monolingual bias blinds you just as your master – Chomsky is limited by his monolingualism.
carlin would have loved this
he is so awesome and one of a kind
For those who want to skip through the parts
Grammar 2:04
Swearing 13:00
Innuendo 33:00
George Carlin's seven words were……
would the Non-sense a responsible,under specific circumstances,of producing the tow processes,or one of them at least? so why bothered fulfilling such knowledge? this is purposeless,I think,and leads nowhere but to the None-sense itself again.In addition,langues are totally completed,semantically. but thoughts aren't in order to get syntax rebuild every time a group of people need to be orgasmed for instance.
28:07–28:15
FAV BIT OF THE VIDEO haaha
who is the dude at the end interviewing Pinker?
This lecture is full of shit, literally, but also a lot of useful information about human psychology.
Really comical scientific approach to linguistics, I enjoyed it 🙂
I laughed out loud at the beginning warning.
Why is it so satisfying to hear Steven Pinker swear? xD
Steven picked his nose in the thumbnail. +1 to whoever post the exact time of the moment.
Buddy at 15:00 is having a hard time with his hiccough-laugh
Mr. Steven Pinker, I just want to say that I think you explained perfectly, not well, perfectly why swearwords are considered bad. I truly admire your details! Thank you very much for making everything perfectly clear!
steven pinker deserves a pinker in his stinker without consent
I just realized that he kinda looks like a liberal Jordan Peterson and now I feel strange.
This was hilarious and enlightening simultaneously. I'm still a bit off put by a scientific approach to language; my man seems to be lacking some sociocultural angles in his analysis, but I suppose it is one of our best attempts at conceptualizing language. Love it!
hey dont neglect philosophy now
sun rises in the east or sun sets west ,,,,although we know sun is stationary.
he said the n-word!!!!!!!!! Get the police!!! hahaha
Thank you. Pinky's the bomb! There is nothing he can write or lecture one should miss.