Michael Tomasello On the Surprising Origins of Communication and Cooperation
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Importance of Helping
A lot of what grows out of the pointing experience, which is a shared experience, seems to me to be helping. I remember us walking down the street in Leipzig on this on Scientific American Frontiers and you were explaining pointing to me. And I think I became aware for the first time that when you pointed at something, and I looked at the thing and not at your finger, that you and I were in contact in a way we hadn't been before. Yes. It is.
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