Pinker

Pinker talks about artificial intelligence and kinship, and I actually really enjoyed his interview. I think his goal is to understand the brain and all its complexities. He believes that the brain is a product of natural selection. This I can agree with to an extent. I definitely believe that our brains do develop over time, from generation to generation, and that the level of intelligence in the 21st century is much higher than, say, the 18th, but at the same time, everything we develop these days is based off of previously determined knowledge that men before us have discovered. If it weren't for them, who knows if computers would be around today? Some of their inventions were the biggest EVER, even compared to today's society. Bigger than going to the moon in my opinion! Like gravity and other simple laws of physics, the telephone, or even the car.