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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 14

    My interview on NPR's "1A" this morning, now streamable (somewhat misleadingly named "Steven Pinker Looks at the Bright Side").https://the1a.org/shows/2018-02-14/steven-pinker-looks-at-the-bright-side …

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      1. Dovid Kanarfogel‏ @legofranak Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        Great conversation, I appreciate your willingness to address all the "buts" head on

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      2. Magnus Westerstrand‏ @MagWes Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/6U9spA2fsN

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      3. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Feb 14
        Replying to @MagWes @sapinker

        I beat you to it.

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      2. T.‏ @mbpolymath Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        I just ordered Enlightenment Now. I'll read it then listen to this (and your Ezra Klein interview) and judge for myself just how bright-side minded you are, sir! ;)

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      3. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Feb 14
        Replying to @mbpolymath @sapinker

        Purchased it as a pre-order and began reading it yesterday. I'll get through the next few chapters on the train ride home this evening.

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      4. T.‏ @mbpolymath Feb 14
        Replying to @SeanJasonWebb @sapinker

        I feel like people don't appreciate the ways public transportation enhances one's reading life. Happy reading/riding!

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      1. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

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      2. Bill Boxx‏ @BillBoxx Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        I don't think the interviwer liked your downplaying of religion, especially regarding MLK. I just started your book with enjoyment. On Kindle btw.

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      3. T’Challa‏ @ubermen82480015 Feb 14
        Replying to @BillBoxx @sapinker

        Religion is a grand hoax!

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      4. Bill Boxx‏ @BillBoxx Feb 14
        Replying to @ubermen82480015 @sapinker

        I prefer to think of religion as an imagined reality.

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      5. T’Challa‏ @ubermen82480015 Feb 14
        Replying to @BillBoxx @sapinker

        I prefer to think of religion as an augmented reality (AR), where a fantasy is overlaid or superimposed over factuality, resulting in persistent delusions & cognitive dissonance!

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      6. Bill Boxx‏ @BillBoxx Feb 14
        Replying to @ubermen82480015 @sapinker

        I was referring to Harari on the cognitive revolution when man was able to not just experience objective reality but was able to imagine all sorts of realities, religion being a prominent example.

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      2. Frank McMains‏ @frankiii Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        So many strawmen. Please come the American south and hear how blind you sound. See the pollution, the institutional racism, the state violence.

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      3. Skippy‏ @jwheat1968 Feb 14
        Replying to @frankiii @sapinker

        You are fighting the straw man. Pinker isn’t saying everything is great and nothing can improve. He’s saying that things are better and he’s got the data to prove it.

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      1. Jasper Endeman‏ @JasperEndeman Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        Love your work What do you think about 1.The elephant graph? 2.The feeling of 'belonging': recognizable, human-scale society's. Some prefer a poorer '50s midtown USA over a richer 2018 cosmopolitan town. What is 'better'? How do these fit in the everything is better narrative?

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      2. T’Challa‏ @ubermen82480015 Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        The end of religion is the beginning of reason. The dissolution of faith is the solution for enlightenment.

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      3. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Feb 14
        Replying to @ubermen82480015 @sapinker

        You can’t end religion. It is a glitch inherent in our systems.

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      4. T’Challa‏ @ubermen82480015 Feb 14
        Replying to @SeanJasonWebb @sapinker

        For every malware there is remediation patch. Only matter of time to eradicate it!

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      1. Aidan K.‏ @WellsiteGeo Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        I don't have the google-fu, so just insert the closing scene of "Life of Brian" here.

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      1. David L. Smith‏ @DLSmith1665 Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        We enjoyed listening

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