"I told him to be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words."
Woody Allen
Is the gap between objective and inner reality the reason we
have difficulty understanding large numbers, the way statistics works,
scientific theories like quantum physics or how to navigate the complexities of modern society, which is so different from a small tribe of hunter-gatherers?
Talks
Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
In an exclusive preview of his new book, The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analyzing common sentences and words, he shows us how, in what we say and how we say it, we're communicating much more than we realize.
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