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The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language

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The guest stumbled upon this book while recovering from a hand injury, and reading it filled them with awe regarding the sophistication and complexity of the human brain's cognitive machinery related to language.

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I ended up stumbling upon a book by Stephen Pinker called The Language Instinct and I opened it up and I just started reading a couple pages and was just completely an awe of this organ, of the human...

— Episode: The Science of Handling Uncertainty | Ma...

Episode: The Science of Handling Uncertainty | Maya Shankar

The guest stumbled upon this book while recovering from a hand injury, and reading it filled them with awe regarding the sophistication and complexity of the human brain's cognitive machinery related to language.

"

I ended up stumbling upon a book by Stephen Pinker called The Language Instinct and I opened it up and I just started reading a couple pages and was just completely an awe of this organ, of the human brain and what it's capable of.

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