steven pinker

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  1. quasi-religious
    resembling something that is religious
    In The Blank Slate, he notes "that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.
  2. Darwinian
    an advocate of Darwinism
    He has merged Chomskyan ideas about an innate language faculty with the Darwinian theory of adaptation and natural selection.
  3. neural
    of or relating to the nervous system
    Pinker also wrote one of the most influential critiques of neural-network models of the mind.
  4. slate
    fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into layers
    This month marks the publication of such a book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by MIT research psychologist Steven Pinker.
  5. cognition
    the psychological result of perception and reasoning
    He has studied visual cognition and language acquisition in the laboratory, and was one of the first to develop computational models of how children learn the words and grammar of their first language.
  6. inherent
    existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
    One is the doctrine of "the blank slate": that we have no inherent talents or temperaments, because the mind is shaped completely by the environment§parenting, culture, and society.
  7. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
    In The Blank Slate, he notes "that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.
  8. natural selection
    a process in which organisms evolve to adapt to environment
    He has merged Chomskyan ideas about an innate language faculty with the Darwinian theory of adaptation and natural selection.
  9. physiological
    relating to the study of the functioning of organisms
    The third is "the ghost in the machine", that the most important part of us is somehow independent of our biology, so that our ability to have experiences and make choices can't be explained by our physiological makeup and evolutionary history.
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