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Pinker’s chair is in the Psychology Department’s Mind, Brain and Behavior program, one of the interdisciplinary concentrations that Summers has praised...
...person that sits in the mayor’s office and says, ‘well, Harvard has a lot of resources, I want to take their resources.’ I want to work with them. With the brain-power and the resources they have, they’re a very valuable resource to our city...
...player to go wherever he or she wants in the game, and even have adventures that are unrelated to the final goal. These games are much more lifelike, since they allow the player to transpose his or her will directly on the character. Windward Mark’s brain trust believes that a player is much more likely to form a personal connection with a character firmly under his or her control than with a character whose movements are largely dictated by the structure of the game. Armed with these ideas and the skills to make them a reality, Windward...
...imitate, imprint language, absorb culture and express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints, nor are they just the carriers of heredity. They are active during life; they switch one another on and off; they respond to the environment. They may direct the construction of the body and brain in the womb, but then almost at once, in response to experience, they set about dismantling and rebuilding what they have made. They are both the cause and the consequence of our actions...
...foreboding on his behalf. As we follow him deeper and deeper into his life of crime, we sense that, smart and daring though he is, he will not be able to resist his own heedlessness, those violent flashes of temper that wipe all clever calculations out of his brain...