The Language Instinct

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i lost the ability to play violin right as i was heading to college. I discovered a book on how the mind processes language. And i marvelled at this, because i had always taken my ability to speak and comprehend language for granted m as i think many people who have language abilities do. Like i just became captivated, ah by, by the brain. Unfortunately for me, yale offered in a cognitive science inter disciplinary programm. At the time, it was one of the first schools. So you take classes in nero science, computer science, linguistic psychology, anthropology, biology, um. You try to ask that question using all these different tools. The room is packed

A few weeks ago, Maya Shankar and her team reached out to me noting their new show, A Slight Change of Plans, which explores how various fascinating people have changed their minds, often after something unexpected happened in the story of their lives, overlapped in its interests and goals with You Are Not So Smart.

One of her guests, Megan Phelps-Roper, was recently a guest on this show, and Daryl Davis is one of her guests who I’ve long wanted to feature on this podcast. So, as podcasters do from time to time, Maya wondered if she could come on this podcast to promote her podcast, and seeing as our interests and obsessions and work and overall mission aligned so strongly, I said, "Absolutely, I would love that," and this is that episode

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