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As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published…

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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…
Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need…
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like…
Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over…
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve…
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They…
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that…
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just…
Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other…
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to…

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