Steven Pinker How The Mind Works

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@jonahansen 10 ай бұрын

This is such a good talk. Pinker is one smart cookie, and knows an immense amount about the brain, consciousness, biology, evolution, & language.

@mistycloud4455 6 ай бұрын

We need him to help us achieve agi

@shahzoderkinov8010 2 жыл бұрын

This is just brillian!

@axle.student 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I have studied his books, but only just seen this video now :) I know some see his work as a little controversial, but if you you put any preconceived ideas of perfection aside, Steven brings a wealth of knowledge, even if you don't 100% agree with all of it.

@بوخليفةعيد 12 жыл бұрын

I READ his book in 1998 as ARABIC -native speaker ,it was too hard to understand his book ,now I listen to his lectures ,reading his books without any effort at all ,2013! I also listen to my german favourit scientist in their native language painlessly at a time was painful for me to read novels in ENGLISH or GERMAN since the very beginning in this year, each month I read three novels one in ARABIC ,ENGLISH &GERMAN respectfully.

@wonderfacts7782 3 жыл бұрын

Wao! That's really wonderful 😊

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2 жыл бұрын

@joesickler5888 2 жыл бұрын

A Salamalaykum my brother

@jmarty1000 2 жыл бұрын

This book was life-changing to me. I enjoyed it so much, on so many levels, that I recommend it to anyone who might be interested. I've followed Dr. Pinker's career and following books with great satisfaction. He's like "Radiohead", and this is his "OK Computer". Happily, both are still creating wonderful works for us to enjoy.

@myoldchannel0690 2 жыл бұрын

I just started it last night. I'm enjoying it so far.

@axle.student 2 жыл бұрын

I read it 20 years ago. Up there with some of the best books I have ever read :)

@shahzoderkinov8010 2 жыл бұрын

What an introduction!

@Mega2Sakaura 11 жыл бұрын

The screen savers of the mind are dreams x) !

@VCRrepairman 11 жыл бұрын

I love the professor who introduced him, what a charming fucker!

@jenslyn87 10 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@Heinrick192 7 жыл бұрын

Table Projectors... I thought I'd never have to see one of those again.

@aaronkern4771 4 жыл бұрын

Right, the height of technology in the 90's. lol

@semeredamr6546 5 жыл бұрын

excellent man,

@cornerstaple8747 5 жыл бұрын

Steve lookin pretty friggin good

@LockSteady 12 жыл бұрын

I love this lecture. Pinker rules!

@williambudd2630 4 жыл бұрын

This guy could help a lot of people if he would provide an explantion of the mental process whereby a student of a foreign language memorizes new vocabulary and why it is that some words are easier to memorize than others and what to do when a word seems to be impossible to memorize.

@shreeabraham 10 ай бұрын

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:18 *🎓 Overview of Steven Pinker's Background and Achievements* - Steven Pinker's academic journey from McGill to Harvard and back to MIT. - Highlights of Pinker's career achievements, including awards and directorial roles. 04:03 *📚 Discussion on Pinker's Writing Style and Notable Works* - Acknowledgment of Pinker's influential writing style, making complex topics accessible to the public. - Mention of "The Language Instinct" and a brief excerpt illustrating Pinker's writing prowess. 06:50 *🧠 Appreciation for the Complexity of the Human Mind* - Emphasis on the human mind as a frontier of science and its remarkable capabilities. - Reflection on paradoxes such as common sense versus quirks of human behavior. 08:13 *💡 Introduction to Three Key Ideas Explaining How the Mind Works* - Explanation of computation as the brain's function of information processing. - Introduction to evolution as a reverse engineering process to understand complex devices like the mind. - Discussion on specialization in the mind, likening it to the organization of biological systems. 19:09 *🔍 Example of Seeing: Understanding Visual Perception* - Demonstration of how the brain processes visual information using tricks like shape from shading. - Explanation of how the brain interprets millions of variables to construct a three-dimensional understanding of the world. 21:17 *🧠 Perception and Illusions* - Our brain interprets brightness as angle, leading to assumptions about shapes from shading. - Modern contrivances like television and makeup take advantage of these perceptual tricks. - Many illusions and maladaptive behaviors stem from mismatches between ancestral assumptions and the current environment. 24:16 *🤔 Evolutionary puzzles and human intelligence* - Evolutionary puzzles include the existence of abstract intelligence in hunter-gatherer societies. - Humans entered the cognitive niche by outsmarting biological challenges. - Understanding intuitive theories like intuitive physics and biology aided survival in ancient times. 27:18 *🧒 Development of intuitive theories in infants* - Even infants as young as three months old demonstrate an understanding of stable, law-abiding objects. - Core intuitions about physics and biology are present early in human development. - The perception of living things differs from inanimate objects, reflecting intuitive biological theories. 30:00 *🔧 Intuitive engineering and artifact comprehension* - Humans possess intuitive understanding of artifacts and their intended functions. - The definition of objects like chairs is based on intended use rather than physical attributes. - Intuitive psychology helps us understand behavior as driven by beliefs and desires. 33:31 *🤢 Psychology of disgust* - Disgust serves as a deterrent against potentially harmful foods and pathogens. - Contamination by contact illustrates our intuitive microbiology and avoidance of perceived threats. - The open-ended list of disgusting substances reflects an evolutionary strategy to avoid potential dangers. 38:55 *❤️ Emotions about people and the strategic theory of passion* - Passionate emotions towards people may serve strategic purposes rather than purely romantic ones. - The commitment problem in relationships highlights the role of involuntary emotions. - Understanding emotions in a strategic framework offers insights into human behavior in social contexts. 42:32 *💔 Romantic relationships and commitment* - Romantic love serves as a guarantor of commitment in relationships. - Commitment involves costs such as foregone opportunities and sacrifices. - Lack of freedom or rationality in romantic love can be advantageous for maintaining commitment. 46:14 *🤔 Emotions, involuntary systems, and guarantees* - Emotions, especially passionate love, are strongly tied to involuntary bodily systems. - Emotions like love and loyalty serve as guarantors of sincerity and commitment. - Emotions like vengeance and a sense of honor make threats more credible. 48:23 *🧠 The mind, evolution, and human nature* - The mind is a system of computers designed by natural selection to promote survival and reproduction. - Evolution has given rise to both noble and ignoble emotions and behaviors. - Computation, evolution, and specialization provide reasons for optimism about human abilities and capacities. 51:14 *🤢 Disgust and cross-cultural differences* - Disgust is universal, but the objects of disgust vary across cultures. - Food taboos are closely linked to the emotion of disgust and often learned during childhood. - Disgust serves as a protective mechanism against harmful or undesirable substances. 57:58 *🧩 Mind vs. Brain: Information processing and higher-order regularities* - Discusses the choice of using "mind" over "brain" to focus on higher-order regularities and information processing. - The mind encompasses more than just nervous tissue and involves understanding behaviors and emotions at a macroscopic level. - Analogizes the relationship between the brain and the mind to reading a book beyond just analyzing ink under a microscope. 01:04:19 *❓ Value, morality, and cultural variations* - Distinction between moral realism and relativism. - Common core values across cultures with variations based on historical and cultural contexts. - Evolutionary explanations for moral beliefs such as loyalty to kin and reciprocity. 01:08:17 *🧠 Brain specialization and evolutionary implications* - The brain is a collection of specialized faculties rather than a completely general organ. - Uncertainty regarding future human brain evolution due to lifestyle factors and the lack of predictability in natural selection. - Critique of underestimating the engineering complexity of mundane mental activities by Stephen J. Gould. Made with HARPA AI

@RandomShit1515 11 жыл бұрын

What is that light thing with the clear plastic stuff he keeps putting on it? ;)

@ChalkiePerfect 12 жыл бұрын

I love the host's comment that he felt old when an MIT student told him he was born in 1977.

@firstal3799 6 жыл бұрын

I think the person who introduces is in love..

@darknut90 11 жыл бұрын

Oners82 he has one self obtained PhD, and several honorary doctorates, as far as I can see from his website CV.

@jonahansen 4 жыл бұрын

At 37:30 - the transitivity of Cooties law.

@to6ky-m5u 3 жыл бұрын

I’m in high school and I really want to read this book but it’s kind of intimidating

@dn-anonymous 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but very readable. Skip over the confusing bits, have the internet handy so you can google stuff that's confusing.

@jonaskoelker 9 жыл бұрын

25:50, correction: "As a Canadian, I'm outraged, eh?"

@34672rr 9 жыл бұрын

+Jonas Kölker Correction "as a Canadian, I'm soory".

@Naturalist1979 12 жыл бұрын

Concisely presenting his brilliant book. Lecture starts at 6:48.

@iancozens8308 9 жыл бұрын

Wow Steve Pinker is super HOT !

@investglobal-io 4 жыл бұрын

Whos watching in 2020?

@tonyamharris9940 9 жыл бұрын

Seriously. Some of you need to get in touch with your truths. Trolling youtube to attempt to discredit works of others...you need to get out more. The fact that he has to explain it to you and you dont just get it...maybe listen,stop judging,process what is being said

@AndrewEvagelou 9 жыл бұрын

+lptonya harris "...get in touch with your truths." What the fuck are you talking about? lmfao... hahaha

@tonyamharris9940 9 жыл бұрын

I get it. Your way of getting attention is via trolling. Heres a huge hug...

@AndrewEvagelou 9 жыл бұрын

lptonya harris LOL are you on drugs? I'm not even joking. You don't seem well...

@tonyamharris9940 9 жыл бұрын

Andrew Evagelou Yes its me..the positive one is always on drugs. Go away and get over the fact that your mother owes you an apology.

@squamish4244 6 жыл бұрын

20 years after this talk, we aren't any closer to understanding how the mind works. The brain, yes, we've made huge progress. But as for subjective experience itself? No, we still have no idea what it is or how it works. In fact, it was only at about this time that science began to take subjective experience seriously.

@weaselidiotu 12 жыл бұрын

im born in 84 and I feel old.

@SmartVisionMethod 11 жыл бұрын

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@TheEthanwashere 12 жыл бұрын

Cheers :)

@dr.s.p. 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting concepts taken from his book. Our understanding grows by the passing years however, and begins to zero in on what is really happening physiologically within our brains and to that end, one of the simplest, but certainly the most interesting and possible truly realistic explanations of how the mind works that I have found was found hidden in a book called, “The Mind Illuminated” by John Yates, which is about how to meditate, but to help illuminate what he was trying to get at, he then explained how the up to date Neuroscientists, (as he was) saw it at the time of his writing. Much simpler than this lecture.

@maratlox 11 жыл бұрын

I know , right ? How did they even end up here.

@cedb3360 10 жыл бұрын

1:04:39 IS IT SAM HARRIS?? Cant see a clear image of his face, but his voice and the way he inhale strongly by the nose suggest me its a younger Sam

@brenokobayashi7689 10 жыл бұрын

I came here to ask the same question and then I saw your comment! I think it's him...

@steveb0503 10 жыл бұрын

In terms of what he asked, and the sound of his voice, it did seem like it could have been Sam Harris - however, it didn't look anything like him.

@lucasgerrard08 10 жыл бұрын

Not Sam Harris.

@cedb3360 10 жыл бұрын

lucasgerrard08 Not sure about that

@34672rr 9 жыл бұрын

+Tesla Coil Not even close. that guy has beginning male pattern baldness/widow's peak and has a deeper voice.

@davidanderson9664 5 жыл бұрын

"Pouty bee stung look that the models like to attain." - hhahhaaa Pinky Rules!

@bull1234 6 жыл бұрын

"We are phenomenon transitory illusionary and beyond our control"....

@AndreyBogoslowskyNewYorkCity Жыл бұрын

I am in shock to learn that #Hesiod is not the author of #theogony “but a scribe. More perplexing, than that is the fact #universe starts with the great #void #emptiness since correct translation from #ancient #Greek, the name of primordial deity #Chaos is translated into today’s English as schism. Just as in “Tao te Ching” - #Chinese #Taoism .🙀 #IamBogoslowsky🦁🤴 . 🎉🎉🎉

@spanky9676 Жыл бұрын

Damn, Dr Pinker looks so young here. (Yes, I know this is 26 years old)

@lordpatthethird 8 жыл бұрын

"as a Canadian I'm outraged" nice trye.... we all know that Canadians don't experience outrage.

@JOAKINGtube 8 жыл бұрын

lol

@naimanura 5 жыл бұрын

The fact tht the brain named it self is shocking !

@annamari7863 3 жыл бұрын

Students laugh - me: what's funny?

@yanquiufo7113 2 жыл бұрын

Seriously, they laugh at the most random times wtf

@davidroberts1689 9 жыл бұрын

The mind is a system of partly autonomous and competing parts, one part of the mind can sometimes outsmart the others. Evolution led to greed, avarice and lust, but also led to love, friendship and justice. What it takes to be human and how we came about. Now, where are we going?

@seanobrien975 7 жыл бұрын

Humans were designed to deal with tribes of around 50 people I blame population increase to all the insanity we see today. Tribes seem to exist in the micro and macro scale, countries are tribes but when there is a tribal dispute in a tribe that size the consequences are much more dramatic. We are probably doomed eventually just a matter of when. Oh well it will have been a good run

@cousinbelladonna6558 10 жыл бұрын

The techies at MIT couldn't present a video without the time stamp and squiggles at the top? Sheesh, I've seen better visual presentation just about everywhere else...

@lourdesm.velandia-calderon3486 7 жыл бұрын

cousin belladonna 😁😄

@firstal3799 6 жыл бұрын

This is like Fromm the early 80's

@saeeidsoley7345 Жыл бұрын

@MsSilver41 Жыл бұрын

32:57 beliefs in souls and ghost is a case of our intuitive psychology going amuck and conceptualising minds without bodies -inventing a class of entities that don’t exist without bodies . “ I’d have to disagree with this . We don’t invent entities that don’t exist - as Tesla said “man will never understand the universe until he looks beyond non physical particles “. Our body is the vehicle that the soul uses to experience this world .when our time here is over the soul returns to spirit /universal consciousness . We are incarnate souls we leave here and return to being discarnate souls. Not invented , not an invented entity . Just the way it is

@johnmalik7284 9 жыл бұрын

The interpretation of stimuli is never the stimuli interpreted. The true function of the brain is to point to, not interpret, stimuli.

@Antonelliworkout08 7 жыл бұрын

Then why is it so often interpreting. Is the brain not true ?

@thrunsalmighty 11 жыл бұрын

Even more interesting research has been undertaken by Phillipe Rushton and again by Richard Lynn.

@vaibhavkalra4408 10 жыл бұрын

lol

@michaelsoza4183 4 жыл бұрын

it seems the guy got a hard hammer knock on his head .

@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery Жыл бұрын

Turned it off after the pick pocket joke

@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery Жыл бұрын

I kept listening until 13:00 when he sarcastically joked about a Federal Postal 📫 Worker shooting up a federal agency office with a Fully Automatic Assault rifle.

@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery Жыл бұрын

At that point I turned it out. Not sure why or where that would be ok to joke about.

@dmarcellus 9 жыл бұрын

Mr Pinker, if someone has astigmatism does this inherently lead to mental illness?

@ഒരൊറ്റഞാൻഎനിക്കറിയാത്തഞാൻ 4 жыл бұрын

@monsterstream4420 5 жыл бұрын

This talk does not show how the mind works

@ajs41 4 жыл бұрын

American universities before Woke-ism. How refreshing.

@Raydensheraj 3 жыл бұрын

Your obviously never stepped inside of any American university...just alone the Fox news term " Woke-ism " is an embarrassment. The individuals that cry about "Woke-ism" are usually the first ones to attack ideas countering their own ideology and sheer on "Woke-ism" so long it's the right wing kind...aka the stupidity of "I'm red pilled" because QAnus or Jordan Petersen told me so. Maybe you can explain what you consider "Woke-ism"?

@squamish4244 10 жыл бұрын

Pinker is somewhat disingenuous when making claims about highly controversial areas of science. "I'm not saying I know how the mind works...BUT I KNOW HOW THE MIND WORKS."

@rofyle 11 жыл бұрын

Oh, he won awards. He must be a genius, because as we all know, anyone who wins awards is a genius.

@Raydensheraj 3 жыл бұрын

You have won an award..." Hater of the Year " award. Congrats 🎉

@cassandras7399 4 жыл бұрын

Nice but this is obvious to anyone with a well functioning brain.

@pphelps57 5 жыл бұрын

I am quite disappointed. I honestly thought he was going to speak on how the MIND works, not the brain. I hope in the many years since this talk he has finally learned the difference.

@Raydensheraj 4 жыл бұрын

There isn't a difference - both are interconnected. Without the brain there is no "mind"...except of course you believe in supernatural crap.

@rofyle 11 жыл бұрын

I like how he keeps changing the definition of mind without telling his audience he is doing so, so that he can keep fooling severely impressionable idiots that he is a man of genius. Dude is a bullshitter. A used car salesman.

@jessicastrat9376 5 жыл бұрын

rofyle what part do you disagree with?

@LockSteady 11 жыл бұрын

Adam Curtis does not hold a doctorate degree, nor is he even pursuing one. He is an english film maker. Not a psychologist, much less a world class one like Steven Pinker. Please keep your pseudo bullshit to yourself.

@TheSharonhillestad 10 жыл бұрын

Learn about the mind. Read Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard

@steveb0503 10 жыл бұрын

No thanks, I prefer to read nonfiction.

@34672rr 9 жыл бұрын

+Sharon Hillestad Oh no, they have brainwashed you. Get out, now!. Hubbard was a complete charlatan.

@TheBeatifulman 8 жыл бұрын

+Sharon Hillestad I found one in the wild!

@34672rr 7 жыл бұрын

Sharon Hillestad read "nobody poops but you". great childrens book about the evils of pooping

@ishinadish 11 жыл бұрын

Pinker has no idea at all about how the mind works. There is no 'mind-body' problem. He completely bastardizes Descarte's cogito. His is a pop science, much like that of the early 60s R.D Lange. See Adam Curtis' doco All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace for an excellent historical look at the foundation of Pinker's theories.

@shannam1992 6 жыл бұрын

ishinadish your way off my guy

@Raydensheraj 3 жыл бұрын

Taking one claim you got from a book to attack another. While not presenting anything yourself...so...I call that your opinion based on another authorities opinion.