Daily: Steven Pinker on the Rationality Trap
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 1:12.4 | As a cognitive scientist I cannot accept the cynical view that the human brain is a basket of delusions. |
| 1:20.0 | Hunter-gatherers, our ancestors and contemporaries are not nervous rabbits, but cerebral problem solvers, |
| 1:27.5 | a list of the ways in which we're stupid can't explain why we're so smart. |
| 1:36.2 | These are the words of Professor Stephen Pinker in his latest book Rationality, what it is, why it seems scarce, white matters, in which he argues that we are |
| 1:42.4 | as a species more Mr Spock than Homer Simpson. |
| 1:46.2 | I am delighted to welcome him. Professor Stephen Pinker, welcome to the bunker. |
| 1:50.7 | Thank you. Stephen Schopenhauer on authorship, as you will know, observe that there are two kinds of writers. |
| 1:57.6 | Those who write for the sake of writing and those who write because they have something they want to say, the body of your work leads me to think |
| 2:05.3 | you are the latter. So let me begin by asking you straight up. What did you set out to say with |
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