He is a good empiricist and Darwinist but like most empiricists today he does not understand consciousness as most scientists, philosophers or psychologists do not, it being described as The Hard Problem. Like most empiricists he is an atheist and approaches reality from that perspective. Until consciousness is understood we are in the dark and most worldviews are assumptions leading from a bottom up view of life and reality rather than a top down perspective. Sanskrit is the oldest language and most languages are based.on it. Its alphabet is based on actual sounds so it is not an invention but is a given. Prof. Pinker is likely not aware of that. With an understanding of consciousness the human mind as a blank slate would never be up for discussion, as it would be seen as obviously flawed and unrealistic.

7:25 a fascinating aspect is that the right hemisphere has language comprehension that may be on par with the left, but virtually no verbal expression abilities

oy vavoy. so much mental masturbation w this guy. snore. larry david does a poster boy for dun kruger better

13:45 Sir. I take great offense to that specifically, because I was considering what it would be like😂

8:10 I think you made a crucial oversight. This is clear evidence of the body itself being aware, not just two minds, but three…

I watched this talk years ago, and got me thinking, not in a way that Pinker wanted me to think in his talk. And that is why the only person who is Honest is the kid? Shouldn’t the adults tell the emperor that he is naked? And why wouldn’t they? Now years passed since then, and today I wanted to rewatch this video “knowing” that Steven Pinker went to Epstein island. It is common knowledge now 😂. Now the question is did he went there to watch a whole set of emperors being naked, metaphorically and literally, or he himself was one of those emperors? I find all of these linguistics phenomena very interesting, from semantics and of course pragmatics point of view. All of these became more clear and yet confusing when I read the paper "Spilling Some Linguistic Beans: On the Syntactic Flexibility of Idioms" by Daniela Schröder. And asked myself many more confusing questions. I am now researching on Large Language Models and the community expects LLMs to be HHH (Honest, Harmless and Helpful). Clearly people who watched the emperor were not HHH at all, so why LLMs should ? It is all very confusing to me 😂.

In every video every thing I hear are the same analogies!

Thanks for this great lecture. The only thing I disagree is thinking in obesity only in biological terms ( at least that is what I get from her " i am fat and I don't plan to do anything about it". Could it be that other people learns another type of relationship with the feeling of crave.

2:34 - You are wrong. We don’t all have them. People with aphantasia and SDAM never have these moments. It’s very hard to come to terms with the fact that you cannot visualize anything, especially when you’ve spent your life thinking that the phrase “close your eyes and visualize “ was a metaphor. I makes me sad and confused.

Phenomenal talk!

Wow. So intresting....

What about involuntary boredom?

Rare video, on it seems rare topic, thank you for making this available. As poet, I am fond of the acronym IAM; and yes I Am! through my spontaneous memory "presents" that open me to Ah! gratitude. Fascinating to see the work you have done on this, adds much to my enjoyment of its gift.

I'm not seeing this infinite here. You can only know that she knows that you know that she knows once.

Great, thanks from France !

Psychology is -- by the definition of science -- a non-scientific way of thinking.

I wonder if she, being 93, could predict that she would live at least 12 years longer. She's 105 now 😯 All the best Dr. Milner ❤

Hate to blow a whole in his boat but some people just have no warning signs, no abnormal developments. It’s just bam all of a sudden in under a week a perfectly healthy person can get a disease, even the exact same current diagnosis, with all the same symptoms except that insidious onset since childhood.

I had never heard of Albert Bandura until I found him in the obituaries pages of the 2022 World Almanac. I was trying to look up actress Lisa Banes and she wasn't in there.

Brilliant topic and speaker❤thank you

Any arguments on here around whether or not you have a disorder when you are diagnosable as autistic are a waste of time. I am afraid that the term 'autism' as a neutral and even positive identity is mainstream and widespread now. Many young people are openly embracing it. I have proof well away from the internet. I deal in face to face and one way or another I can assure you that 'neurodiversity' is not something confined to a small number of people on social media. That is a fallacy. Try playing the Edinburgh festival each year wearing my message t shirts and doing my Guerilla Autistics show? You will meet examples every single day. By all means call your nature and individual states of being disorder and disability. But that's just you I am afraid. Try walking the streets of the UK and doing that too? Yep, the reaction is always the same. Neurodiversity won years ago. xx

come for the split-brain info got ramblings of an old boomer

So much fun to interpret things like that. It requires much phantasy.

What year is this video in ?

It shows some hope of mankind. Competition is there, selfishness is there, but so does cooperation. It was healing to see how children may share things and conform to the joint agreement through communication, the sense of fairness, respect are some of the most fundamental aspects of this more developed/modern society, though we almost always fail to follow them in some situations. But overall, thanks for the inspiring talk.

42:23 There is a piece missing: "Exploding under pressure" requires some stopping of the available exits for the pressure, otherwise it'd be a gradual 'letting off of steam' - in other words, it requires that the anger be 'held in', as will happen when you 'bottle up your anger', or hold the expression of your emotions back, as if 'stored in a container'.

Such a Brilliant mind🙏🏼✨👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Nothing like understanding yourself….to be kind to yourself, to find the humor in yourself, to forgive yourself, to love yourself for all you really Are✨ We have so much to be thankful for through this Life we have been blessed with, and having this brain in our heads is first on the logical list😉

I'm most interested in finding applications for teaching in elementary school. Any hints on where to look would be appreciated. One comment I have is that when he begins to explain the most crucial aspect, the neural computational toolkit, he rushes through it, leaving me with many questions. If anyone can clarify the part about activation inhibition, modulation, and modulation of the gates using less scientific language, I would appreciate it. And let me say that I am sad to hear that he is no longer with us, but it's nice to see that he is still inspiring people.

God, even the accent, pace and general way of talking of the presenter shows the annoying mentality of these people

I wonder if the results would be replicated in person instead of watching a video.

The problem is assigning equal value to a person's work in their area of expertise and their personal opinions, which in this case regarding the spanish civil war are wrong, misleading and dangerous

What a great talk, but sad to see so few views. Every science course in every institution should start with this sort of instruction. Alas, in my experience it rarely is.

It was all common sense before this research.

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BLOODY HELL/////THE HUNGER GAME////.001% IN CHART AND DETAILS//////AND THE ACADEMIC SECTOR/////WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY////AND HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE WINNERS////

Hey does anyone know where that quote from titchener is from? (8:27), can't find it anywhere!

Lee the Legend. RIP

Bell Jar ... Prior connex? Why do headless chickens go on ...not long usually but still. Gosh. Do we hafta insist that we TRULY KNOW how stuff works? Ok. We're human. We need authority. We require funding. Ok

Communists have never been and never will be the 'good guys'.

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“If your mind is not connected to your body, you cannot think about anything” You cannot process information or take action. It's also very difficult to feel emotions when your mind is not connected to your body.

As someone with ASD, one of my special interests is learning magic tricks.

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Can I assume she is a Chomskian, furthering his ideas about Language? Also, I'm familiar with the ba/da study distinguishing Indian language and also a study with german vowel contrasts. Is her contention that babies innately are able to distinguish differences regarding all earthly language's (English, Hindi, German, Hopi, Swahili etcc...)?

thank you!

BASED

This woman shouldn’t be allowed to teach.

I am honoured to say that this lady is my Aunt. She married my Dad's brother, Peter Milner, who was an equally amazing person, who unfortunately passed away in 2018, just before he turned 99. The interview was fabulous. Her passion for her subject and her ability to articulate how she developed from the daughter of musicians in Manchester to one of the leading neuroscientists is very inspiring. I only met her once when I was a teenager. I was lucky enough to travel to Canada on holiday to see my Uncle and we had lunch with her in her apartment. I didn't appreciate at the time how lucky I was. Amazing lady :)

yikes at the multiple personalities being not real comments... but i see that Lilienfeld passed away.. hope he changed his mind.

Legendary human being⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...Thank you Sir!!