
Ep 162: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 7 ”Hits and False Alarms” Part 1
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Is Human Nature Infinitely Malleable?
Psychologist and renowned psychologist at that Someone who clearly does not understand Universality now perhaps universality is a new idea cutting edge epistemology and psychology perhaps. But it's true we can understand anything It is understandable We can understand any physical phenomena because any physical phenomena is computable Which explanations are a kind of computation we can construct explanations about physical phenomena out there in the universe. That includes ourselves in other words human nature is infinitely malleable This is not a bioceropregidus or an error It simply is the case that it's endlessly malleable.
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