Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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The Metaphor of the Mind
In our political discourse, different modules take over, and it's almost not integrated with the rest of your brain. Letlas: I don't think the mind is span i don't think we just have a homogeneous neral network in the skull. The problem with them metaphor is tatit assumes they are snap in components that with very limited channels of communication between them. But i think it is reasonable to say that there are different a faculties, to use an old fashioned word, to choose a different metaphor.
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