Mark Pagel Quotes

• 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.

  Mark Pagel

  Powerful, Technology, Talking

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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 Pagel

  Motivation, Inspiration, Destiny

  "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.

  Mark Pagel

  Brain, Mind, Language

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

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• Aceptamos de buen grado e incluso abrazamos este control mental, y probablemente sin saberlo.

  Mark Pagel

  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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• 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 Pagel

  Pride, Groups, Emotion

  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.

  Mark Pagel

  Believe, Wonder, Don't Believe

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