
Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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I'm Going to Lose You in Two or Three Minutes
There are very many ways of being dead or as Richard Dawkins put it not alive yeah exactly well in fact we locally you know life is locally. The ultimate explanation for the paradox of how our species could be both so rational and irrational is not some bug in our cognitive software there's the stevenpinker optimism there. Our powers of reason are guarded by our motives and limited by our points of view which is really seems to me the modern way of expressing that point.
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