Stephen Pinker
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True of Connectivism Too?
From Pinker, How the Mind Works (emphasis mine): Why put connectoplasm under such strong lights? Certainly not because I think neural-network modeling is unimportant — quite the contrary! Without it, my whole edifice on how the mind works would be left levitating in midair. Nor do I think that network modeling is merely subcontracting out Continue reading
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The State and its Monopoly on Violence
Well, brief detour from ed stuff for a minute, but I hope you will indulge. I’m reading Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, and it’s just really good. I’ll talk soon about how this book could be worked into a statistical literacy course (the ed angle), but I wanted to just share something the Continue reading
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