The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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‘In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human scenery threatens humane values’ – Helena Cronin, leader of “The Ant and the Peacock”. ‘A mind blowing, mind opening expose. Pinker’s very much positive opinion for the compatibility of biology and humanism are unrivaled for their scope and depth and should be mandatory, if disquieting, reading’ – Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Past President of the Society for Neuroscience.
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I don’t get it. Pinker is a nativist, right? Does that mean he likes to celebrate Christmas? And why does he have to write so many books about it? We all know it’s the 25th of December and commemorates Santa Claus’ birth. Go do some research Pinker!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
After getting this book, I was a small confused by a previous review about it. But, that review pointed to another recently unrestricted text “The Mind And The Brain”, after reading that book, all I can say is that Pinker is overstating his case.
Pinker and his followers may judge in a “user illusion” but the evidence cited in “The Mind And The Brain” says there is a thing like “mental force” more akin to “spiritual force” that gives one the ability for free will/free won’t. People who argue against this “spiritual” notion usually assume the truth of an outdated and fatally flawed set of beliefs called classical physics. In that clogged system, free will can’t exist and is considered an illusion. But, in modern (Quantum) physics this is not the case as “The Mind And The Brain” clarifies. I suppose the real illusion is classical physics. Don’t fall for Pinker’s tricks, the real treat is that the “ghost” is back in the “machine” … just in time for Halloween.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Too opinionated a book. Few judge the mind is a blank slate. But Pinker seems to judge the mind is a TV dinner, and that a chef in the kitchen (parents!) is an nearly incidental redundancy.
To take a trivial example to counter this, David Letterman once had on his TV show identical twins who only met in middle-age. Well, they weren’t exactly identical, because one was reasonably stout, and the additional reasonably thin!! Now if identical twins are so much alike that–as Pinker states–some of them (Pinker wants to give the impression that it’s ALL of them) end up vacationing in the same spot, even if seperated at birth, certainly these two twins on Letterman would have had the same body erect!!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book consists of concepts that have already been formulatd such as Carl Jung’s denial of infants having a “blank mind” o a “tabula rasa” or a blank slab wen they are born. This was said before 1950 wy is Pinker credititng himself with this discovery? There is some useful an appealing information in this book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The book ongoing okay in describing many illogical assumptions on human scenery. But it goes on to argue reason with reason and ultimately makes no point of any value. So long as we do not tell back to the stone age, what harm is there to assume the best from the simplest of us? It is one long (very long) literary essay that can be appreciated more for its research than for any original insight.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5