Mark Pagel quotes
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“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.”
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“It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.”
-- Mark PagelSource : "How language transformed humanity". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.
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“[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.”
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“We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.”
-- Mark PagelSource : Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
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“It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.”
-- Mark PagelSource : Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company
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“No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.”
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“Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.”
-- Mark PagelSource : Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation”, p.290, Penguin UK
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“If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”
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