Pinker explores the innateness of the human mind.
"Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate"
"Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting."
Mines the innate elements of the human mind that have passed down through millions of years of evolution.
Notes that the human's transmits evolutionary traits of the mind, such as the ability to acquire language, rather the human brain starting as a blank or empty container to fill.
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"Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting."
Mines the innate elements of the human mind that have passed down through millions of years of evolution.
Notes that the human's transmits evolutionary traits of the mind, such as the ability to acquire language, rather the human brain starting as a blank or empty container to fill.
Interested? Click "Read More" if the video is not below.
Source is Ted Talks.
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