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"In this excellent talk from 2010′s Harvard Thinks Big event, Pinker looks at two reasons for these misconceptions: Our cognitive limitations and our moral psychology."

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" In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Pinker explores what science tells us about human nature, explains the implications of and recent advances in evolutionary psychology, and talks about atheism and its relationship to the scientific outlook. "

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Last fall I submitted to the latest high-tech way to bare your soul. I had my genome sequenced and am allowing it to be posted on the Internet, along with my medical history.

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Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. (Video on TED.com)

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Steven Pinker Gets to the Bottom of his own Genetic Code: The Personal Genome Project is an initiative in basic research, not personal discovery. Yet the technological advance making it possible - the plunging cost of genome sequencing - will soon give people an unprecedented opportunity to contemplate their own biological and even psychological makeups. - NYTimes.com

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"Do we have a “God gene,” or a “God module”? I'm referring toclaims that a number of you may have noticed. Just last week, a cover story of Timemagazine was called "The God Gene:Does our deity compel us to seek a higher power?" Believe it or not, somescientists say yes. And a number of years earlier, there were claims that thehuman brain is equipped with a “God module,” a subsystem of the brain shaped byevolution to cause us to have a religious belief. "Brain's God module mayaffect religious intensity," according to the headline of the LosAngeles Times. In this evening's talk, Iwant to evaluate those claims." (Pinker)

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in list: Evolution

The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain:
A Review of two contrastive views (Pinker & Deacon).
(Printed 2001 in Grazer Linguistische Studien GLS 55, 1-20)
Ken Ramshøj Christensen
Department of English, University of Aarhus

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in list: Androids, Zombies and Brains

"Gazzaniga has been a vocal scientific voice on the council at a controversial time -- with President George W. Bush twice vetoing legislation on stem cell research; the limiting of U.S federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research to a restricted number of cell lines; and other debates." (All In The Mind)

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in list: Neuroethics

"Well, there was six million years in which our brains expanded and got rewired in ways that allow us to do completely different things. We can exchange information by making noise as we exhale -- the gift that we call language. We figure out how the world works, we make many different kinds of tools, we coordinate our behavior and exchange information. And all of these changes in cognitive evolution, in the evolution of the powers of the brain, account for why humans are making a film in which they can talk about chimpanzees rather than vice versa."

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in list: Androids, Zombies and Brains

"The problem is that "dignity' is a squishy, subjective notion, hardly up to the heavyweight moral demands assigned to it. " (Steven Pinker)

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