![]() ![]() “Hunter-gatherers-our ancestors and contemporaries-are not nervous rabbits but cerebral problem-solvers.” As Pinker puts it, “In social science and the media, the human being is portrayed as a caveman out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions.”īut Pinker argues that rationality is human nature and can be observed in less formal, more rudimentary forms, in the earliest human activity. This is the currently popular idea that we are all basically unfrozen cavemen equipped with a primitive tribal-emotional default setting, so that modern rationality is an unnatural imposition on human nature. Pinker begins by pushing back against the notion that there is some kind of inherent barrier to human rationality. ![]()
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