Mark Pagel Quotes

• It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

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  "How language transformed humanity". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

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  Knowing   Mind   Embrace  

  Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Mind  

  Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation”, p.290, Penguin UK

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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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• No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

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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.

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  Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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