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Paul Bloom
Canadian
Psychologist
Born:
Dec 24
,
1963
Better
Good
People
Sense
Will
You
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Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
Paul Bloom
Work
Reality
Too Much
Imagination
Too
Pleasure
Risky
Real
Real Pleasure
Substitute
Inaccessible
Much
Useful
Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.
Paul Bloom
Good
Religion
You
Simple
Claim
Wrong
Any
Flat
Need
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
Paul Bloom
Appreciation
Think
Lust
Pleasures
Hunger
Seem
Something
More
Animalistic
Simpler
True
Well
Intellectual
Get
Influenced
Stories
Really
Paintings
Satisfaction
Thing
Enjoyment
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.
Paul Bloom
Age
Dignity
Culture
Honor
Will
Sense
Once
Windsor
Individual
Ontario
Detroit
He
Environment
New
Accept
Makes
Versus
Behave
York
Same
New York
Expression
Now
Differently
Violence
Adaptation
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
Paul Bloom
Science
Immaterial
Tells
Physical
Purely
Self
Arises
Souls
Brain
Modern
Modern Science
Us
Conscious
I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?
Paul Bloom
Me
You
Will
Doubt
Universe
Gave
Rise
Neuroscience
Arise
Like
Scientific
Still
Account
Psychology
Explanation
Beings
Conscious
Neat
Consciousness
Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.
Paul Bloom
Achievement
Political
Taken
Taken For Granted
Between
Stunning
Parties
Periods
Political Parties
Human
Granted
Cooperation
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