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Pinker is full of shit tbh. There is not a unified model for human brain. What I mean is, there are people claiming it's modular and there are people claiming i
by bgnn 3y ago
Pinker is full of shit tbh. There is not a unified model for human brain. What I mean is, there are people claiming it's modular and there are people claiming it is a whole. We don't even know the reasons behind very specific neural malfunctions like tinnitus which I suffer from and follow the research closely. There are as many theories as researchers in a given specific field.
- rain_iwakura 3y agoYeah this pretty much sums it up: https://medium.com/the-spike/evolution-doesnt-give-a-damn-what-you-think-a-brain-region-is-called-1c9c5f80ab89 https://medium.com/the-spike/evolution-doesnt-give-a-damn-wh... Also, Pinker isn't a scientist of any sort, he's an accredited and institutionalized evangelist. You guys wouldn't take opinions of someone going to conferences and trying to convert you to use Go lang instead of something else as seriously as those of Guido Rossum would you? His whole thesis requires an idea of linear progress which is highly contested, and the metrics of happiness he uses also can be easily "Goodhart's Law"ed by him to show whatever he thinks is happening. I'm not even getting to his Epstein stuff, which some might cry foul about, but I grew up around regular people and not in Silicon Valley, so a liar and a cheat in one field is probably a liar and a cheat in another to me, sorry.