Language and the Mind - In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) - Melvyn Bragg

In Our Time, from February 11, 1999. Guests are Jonathan Miller, performer, broadcaster, author and film and opera director; and Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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17:36 loosely quoting EM Forster: "I don't quite know what I think until I hear myself say it"

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RIP Jonathan Miller

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Why does the sign have to be arbitrary? Seems a bit arbitrary.

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If you click on "more" under the description you will find access to a time-stamped transcript you can follow along with. You can also click on the button marked "cc" at the bottom right of the video to get auto-generated text. I hope you enjoy the video.

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Pinker sounds like a gifted uni freshman talking excitedly to friends after smoking a joint. His reasoning invoking mathematics is a bit cringey.

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I'm sorry that it struck you as such, but I would have to disagree with your sentiment. He's one of the most brilliant, rational, and influential men of our time, and can easily dispatch any argument that is put forth against him. Cringe generally implies that someone is out of their depth, and no one, not even his critics, could or would, with all due seriousness, accuse him of that.

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@@inhighspeed cool. Thanks for posting this anyway.