Stephen Pinker: Defining Our Idea Of Common Knowledge And How It Effects Relationships

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“We might say something like, you can't take it back, it's out there, it's out there. Meaning you can see it, I can see it, I can see you seeing it, you can see me seeing it, and that's our intuitive metaphor for common knowledge.” Psychology professor at Harvard, Steven Pinker, says that societal “norms are vulnerable” at the moment, especially on social media, which may risk them "unraveling if they are flouted without consequence.” Steven Pinker was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen every Monday-Thursday, 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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