Steven Pinker - Origins Symposium - The Cognitive Niche

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Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, and The Blank Slate.

Books by Steven Pinker:

The Stuff of Thought, 2008

The Language Instinct, 2007

The Blank Slate, 2003

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[alternativeinfo]

Did Lawrence Krauss speak during this event? If so, will it be uploaded here? :)

[TheScienceFoundation]

@alternativeinfo It'll be up in an hour or two

[TheScienceFoundation]

@alternativeinfo It's up

[MANGOS487]

pawsowned is a troll posting bs about pinker, dont answer to him, its like debating with a creationist.

[pawsoned]

@Iambecome your condescending tantrum is indeed a good example of your education. Poka

[Iambecome]

@pawsoned Listen up you idiot, because this is the last time I will address you: You haven't "disagreed" with me, or even Pinker, because you haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about. You prob up strawmen so absurd they're laughable. You are a joke, pawsoned, and you don't even realise it. Educate yourself before opening your mouth.

[pawsoned]

@Iambecome C'mon dude. Stop your hissy fit and shut the F%* up! Enjoy your Pinker without calling other people names and just because someone disagrees with you it doesn't mean that he's a moron. Look who's talkin'!

[Iambecome]

@pawsoned The superman thing is pop reference that went over your head. Also, you're far too ignorant to be within the reach of a disabusing on youtube. I suggest instead you quit being such a tard, but I fear I may be asking too much of you. You've gotta trust me on this: to everyone here with a functioning brain, you are coming across as incredibly, spectacularly stupid.

[Iambecome]

@pawsoned wrong. i attack you on the basis that you evidently haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about. every single "criticism" you put forward is spectacularly absurd. you have your facts entirely wrong, making you look incredibly foolish.

[pawsoned]

@Ia Dude, you got me wrong. I don't hate this sweet 'super-man' as you call him, he's funny to watch that's why he's so popular on YouTube. But I was fed up with his purportedly scientific lingo. I know that I don't have equal authority as he, and I'm not even pretending that I can bring down this infallible Goliath of Scientific Achievement. You attack me on the basis that I dare to criticize Pinker, but what you're doing seems to me equally fallacious because you're appealing to his authority.