My Response to Crazy Love By Steven Pinker In the article “Crazy Love’’ by Steven Pinker he describes the effects love has on us as human beings‚ and the way people look for certain spouses. Pinker argues that ever since the beginning of time love as driven humans to make decisions they would not normally make. Love evokes feelings not only of happiness‚ but sorrow and anger as well. Pinker then begins to explain how humans find a mate‚ and what they look for in the opposite sex. He explores two
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Jun Fu Ling 3B‚ M/W 10AM 11/February/2014 Comparative essay Draft #2 Violent role in history In the “Violence Vanquished” with Steven Pinker‚ Pinker considers that the modern era is the most peaceful time in the history of the human species. All kinds of violence have declined due to the progress of human civilization‚ government ability to enforcement‚ development of commerce and the expansion of cosmopolitanism. The author has pulled together data from numerous statistical
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computer connected to the internet wherever he/she goes. However‚ there are certain bad effects steaming from using the internet excessively. According to the articles “This Is Your Brain On Internet” by Terrence Sejnowski and “Not At All” by Steven Pinker‚ both authors talk about the differences uses of internet on how the internet effecting our brains in a good or bad ways. According to the first article‚ “This Is Your Brain On Internet” by Terrence Sejnowski‚ the author quotes “Gaining knowledge
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ESSAY PORTFOLIO Is the Internet making us less intelligent? Essay Plan In my essay I wish to argue that the Internet is not making us less intelligent‚ but that it has provided a whole new dimension to the way we interact‚ communicate‚ think‚ create‚ share and exist. The accessibility of the Internet provides a magnitude of knowledge and information in real time that could have never have been accessed
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moral obligations. In disagreement with the previous claim‚ I believe that the possession of knowledge does carry an ethical responsibility. In a paper written by Steven Pinker‚ otherwise known as “The Moral Instinct”‚ he suggests that morality has a metaphorical switch. Stated as the “moralization switch”‚ Steven Pinker suggests‚ “Moralization is a psychological state that can be turned on and off like a switch‚ and when it is on‚ a distinctive mind-set commandeers our thinking.” Much
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research. Those who believe that the biological part of a person primarily determines his or her personality think that traits are innate. On the other hand‚ those who believe that the environment shapes who people are think that humans are born as blank slates. Between these two differing beliefs lie a multitude of other models of the self. Despite the discourse‚ most people can agree that there is merit to each of the different ways of seeing how individuality manifests. Even one of the most extreme
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opportunities society had to grow. Author Steven Pinker who wrote the article Mind over Mass Media makes a statement saying “If you train people to do one thing (recognize shapes‚ solve math puzzles‚ or find hidden words)‚ they get better at doing that one thing.” Because the Internet has provided people with more knowledge‚ different aspects of society have been able to grow i.e. science. The amount of knowledge that is provided to people is endless. Pinker says “Knowledge is increasing exponentially…”
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Steven Pinker (2010) ‚ writes about the effect of technology to people in his article Mind Over Mass Media. He talks about how people think about the technology‚ and what his opinion on this issue. Many people think that the high technology may not a good thing to human being‚ because they believe some high technology products could effect human’s brain‚ which leads to people because lazy and decrease their intelligence. However‚ Pinker disagree that‚ he shows some example to try to justify that
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things are thought to be correlated with relationship between new technology and human progress. How technology influence quality of human life and disperse people’s attention or solutions to problems of technology (Younkins 2000; Lawler 2005; Carr & Pinker 2010; Petros & Jones 2013). In the present paper‚ how new technology can benefit quality of human life in specific way can be investigated. It is can helps and contributes other aspects of people’s lives and make life easier. The following five literature
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late 2015‚ Mr. Steven Pinker published an editorial with the Boston Globe titled‚ “The moral imperative to bioethics”‚ which concerned me quite a bit. Mr. Pinker’s editorial was over the new technique of CRISPR-Cas9. This technique allows one‚ relatively cheaply and easily‚ to go through a genome‚ target certain undesirable genetic sequences‚ cut those sequences out‚ and implant a new genetic sequence of ones choosing. While this sounds amazing at first‚ and something that Mr. Pinker wants us to
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