Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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Are We Decided?
The natural world is ruled by something like cause and effect. The laws of nature haven't changed, so our minds are fully determined. On the other hand, there is so much a unpredictability, non linearity, that for all intents and purposes, we're not determined. But some things that are true in theory are so mind bogglingly complicated ey may as well not be true in theory.
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