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The author's a woman, FYI.
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Thanks for the link - although I'm referring more to the (potentially false) analogy with present-day digital computers as opposed to the claim that the brain is a type of computational instrumen…
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I've noticed that articles like this almost always fall back on implicit "brain as computer" metaphors: "systems involved in love and sex are coming online," "impact of t…
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What's the source for the Tereshkova thing? The first that came up for it is longtime space journalist James Oberg writing in 1981 that it's "a malicious rumor," then allowing that…
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An irony here: Steven Pinker is himself a fairly bad writer, although he's bad in the way that someone like David Brooks of the NYT is bad (superficial, self-absorbed), as opposed to the classic …
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I love the story of what Peter Green calls "Alexander's Funeral Games" - the battles of Alexander's generals to secure his body after he died and use it to legitimate their own cla…