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Fact Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy…
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for…
- The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
- Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the…
- Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply…
- The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a…
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