Science Saturday: How MacGyver Made Our Minds | Carl Zimmer & Gary Marcus [Science Saturday]
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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics
01:32 How Gary got hooked on the mind 13:35 Noam Chomsky meets the genome 20:48 What's a kluge? 42:45 Why we couldn't speak the perfect language 50:01 How our design flaws might explain why many of us are nuts 54:52 Practical advice for the owner of a klugey mind Carl Zimmer (carlzimmer.com, The Loom) and Gary Marcus (NYU, Kluge) Join the conversation on Bloggingheads.tv: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/1537 Recorded on April 10, 2008 Subscribe to the Bloggingheads.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/ccLFDY Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloggingheads Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloggingheads/ Follow our RSS feed: https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/feed?format=audio