• Do Pinker’s observations about babies’ learning patterns disprove the concept of a robot with human capabilities or the possible existence of a “non human animal?” (p. 38)—PW

• Are humans too complex to be explained through evolution, or could we have been creatively designed? pg. 51—KH

• What is the “design or purpose” of the mind? (Pinker, 51)—BF

• Page 56. Do you think it is possible for a group of people, who don’t know violence, to live in a state without warfare?—SM

• The Lottery p. 59—CS

• The example between the parrot and child acquiring language, states the disadvantage between simple regurgitation to reflect learning, in the purpose of culture is it really an innate mechanism that allows developing beings to extract culture? (page 60).—EA

• I believe we cannot determine if the slate is “blank” without first determining what “blank” truly means. How can we define the term “blank”? (Lots of examples, pg 60 is one)—AR

• “Social psychologists have amply documented that people have a powerful urge to do as their neighbors do” (p. 63). Why do you think that people have such urges to imitate people? Do we always consciously copy people or can we do it unconsciously?—JC

• (pg.66) Why is cultural diversity still important when communities of one culture usually have the tendency to learn the custom of other cultures based on efficiency?—PY

• Pg. 67. Thomas Sowell quote on the evolution of culture.—WF

• Is the culture of Wabash dying? (Chapter 4)—AW