RSAnimate - Language as a Window into Human Nature (Steven Pinker)

An awesome new RSAnimate - Language as a Window into Human Nature (Steven Pinker). The full lecture, from Pinker's book, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, is embedded below.

In this new RSAnimate Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Taken from the RSA's free public events programme www.thersa.org/events

Full RSA lecture: The Stuff of Thought:

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