Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
“The Better Angels of our Nature” - this, Children, is the title of a fairly recent popular Allistic science book.
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Not going to spell it out, They who have ears to hear and all that. 😀
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Mar 20 at 5:51pmWeb
Show threadjosh susserMar 20
@punishmenthurts oh gods, it's Pinker. haven't we had to endure enough of his inane sophistry already? Maybe now that it's come out that he's in the Epstein files we'll be able to shut him up.
Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaMar 20
@joshsusser
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I mean, the main two nouns in the title, religion. 😀
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I read a few of his brain ones at the beginning of my midlife meltdown, there are only a couple of soundbites I kept, it drove home the materialism a little better, I did have some bit of the Ghost in the Machine idea in my head, thought wasn’t as moored in physical biology for me yet then. But that’s about it, neither the detail about brains nor his conclusions meant anything to me. There wasn’t a mention of neurotype.
Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaMar 20
@joshsusser
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and I’d be one for two, that pic has Trivers in it too, and I don’t think he’s one of the bad guys.
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I guess he counts as Allistic science and as an evobro, but I do not see him as a whoremonger. 😬
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I wouldn’t bet the farm, I guess. He does seem to get a bit macho sometimes, I could see him liking the challenge of hanging with those gangsters - he’s done it before, but with the good gangsters, the Panthers, and he’s on record saying women are the superior sex.
Show threadjosh susserMar 20
@punishmenthurts I don't know how to judge people based on this spotty evidence, but I've learned that very often smoke really does mean there's fire. And I'm wary of letting the fact that someone occasionally holds an opinion I agree with affect my judgment of their character. I know too many people I thought were smart and ethical who turned out to be terrible.
Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai LamaMar 20
@joshsusser
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fair enough. Totally get that. Trivers’ biography is very hard to understand, and I’m just guessing. It’s not one that makes you think the ‘tism, but some
things might, it’s pretty bizarre.