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Dr. Steven Pinker: Psychologist, psycholinguist and author

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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How to Get People to Operate More in That Reality?

Technology is allowing people to operate more in this mythology zone than the reality zone, says ges. The scientific revolution instilled in us a conviction that all our beliefs should be held because they're true or false, imean because they'retrue. For most of our evolutionary indeed, or our recorded history, then, the belief that just affirmed your identity was the best belief you could have anyway. i think there should be more of an effort on the part of various officials, whether corporations or governments or academi or journalism, to explain the basis behind their pronouncements. And if we'd known that they actually work, i think we'd be less stent and soenfoor a

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