i thought there was a real connection has no connection but no harm you just kind of run away but i thought there was a real connection has no connection but no harm you just kind of run away but if you think the rustle in the grass is a day is that is just the wind it turns out it's a dangerous predator if you think the rustle in the grass is a day is that is just the wind it turns out it's a dangerous predator your lunch you've just been munched and taken out of the gene pool or your lunch you've just been munched and taken out of the gene pool so my argument is that we evolved the capacity to assume that all right so my argument is that we evolved the capacity to assume that all rustles in the grass are dangerous predators instead of just the wind and therefore on the grass are dangerous predators instead of just the wind and therefore we tend to believe things that are not true just in case because some of them we we tend to believe things that are not true just in case because some of them are true and therefore believing weird

things by the way this is called superstition are true and therefore believing weird things by the way this is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system it's a feature that comes equipped in the software of our program a system it's a feature it comes equipped in the software of our programming to try to connect things in the environment just in case there's a real connection to try to connect things in the environment just in case there's a real connection. all right so. you're saying believe star almost restraint all right so. here's a believe star almost restraint by common sense just like a writing bit helps to harness an emotional hole by common sense just like a writing bait helps to harness an emotional horse but this horse well you know it

still go where and where if it wants but this horse well you know it still go where and where if it once are you saying that our emotional self will always take over that rational it's are you saying that our emotional self will always take over that rational one yes well we are both rational and emotional that is really one yes well we are both rational and emotional that is reason is a tool that we use to try to understand how the world work. is a tool that we use to try to understand how the world works emotions are also a kind of a tool it's a way of reasoning very quick rick's emotions are also kind of a tool it's a way of reasoning very quickly so evolution designed our emotions to drive us lee so evolution designed our emotions to drive us to do things so you don't have

to calculate how many calories your body needs to do things so you don't have to calculate how many calories your body needs it in a given day you just feel hungry so that a motion of hunger drives you to any given day you just feel hungry so that a motion of hunger drives you to eat something and then when you're satisfied you've had enough you no longer have that feeling or desire eat something and then when you're satisfied you've had enough you no longer have that feeling or desire to be attracted to somebody else this is an evolved trait that helps the species perpetrator to be attracted to somebody else this is an evolved trait that helps the species perpetrator. you have sex in children and so on but no one calculates. you have sex and children and so on but no one calculates exactly why they're attracted to somebody else you know the waist to hip ratio or the actually why they're attracted to somebody else you know the waist to hip ratio or the cement

summitry of their faces or the complection of their skin no one does those calculations you just feel a cemetery of their faces or the complection of their skin no one does those calculations you just feel attracted to somebody so in that sense things emotions like anger and jealousy attracted to somebody so in that sense things emotions like anger and jealousy and you know those sorts of things that they're a way of reasoning about the world be and you know those sorts of things that they're a way of reasoning about the world very quickly this call rapid cognition you just have a into a sense about something in very quickly this call rapid cognition you just have a into a sense about something and we're pretty good about this with people for example if you have a sense like this person and i were pretty good about this with people for example if you have a sense like this person i don't have a good feeling about him i don't trust him i don't know what it is i just don't feel right i don't have a good feeling about him i don't trust him i don't know what it is i just don't feel right about him or the situation here and those are usually pretty accurate

feelings about him or the situation here and those are usually pretty accurate feelings that we have but it's not it's not psychic power it's it's a way of reasoning that we have but it's not it's not psychic power it's it's a way of reasoning very rapidly about the environment you're picking things up from the from the environment you don't know what they are you rapidly about the environment you're picking things up from the from the environment you don't know what they are i don't know what they are but it's just a feeling you get and that's actually a good trait that we have i don't know what they are but it's just a feeling you get and that's actually a good trait that we have. ok let me take this a little step further well ok let me take this a little step further let's talk about what's real or not at the end of the day what we do let's not about what's real or not at the end of the day what we do

decipher is real right because many we now and physicists. decipher is real right because many were now and physicists. for instance he says she is suggesting that everything that with your cockle for instance he says she is suggesting that everything that we think is real and might just be. what do you think think is real and might just be. when you think. yeah i don't think that's correct at the level that. yeah i don't think that's correct at the level that which we live that is the macro physical world with michio is talking which we live that is the macro physical world with michio is talking about there or brian cox or any of the physicists that study quantum physics for example in about there or brian cox or any of the physicists that study quantum physics for example they're talking about the subatomic particle and this is

a very different world it is the size they're talking about the subatomic particle and this is a very different world it is the size of atoms if you had like a tennis ball here is the nucleus of the atom of atoms if you had like a tennis ball here is the nucleus of the atom and the electrons going around it sort of the energy and the electrons going to. feel that the energy shield or field of the electrons going around it these would be like blocks away from the little tennis ball here trons going around these would be like blocks away from the little tennis ball here it's most. empty space the atom is mostly empty space so that's why people new age groups talk about you know this chair is completely empty or it's mostly empty space the atom is mostly empty space so that's why people new age groups talk about you know this chair is completely empty or or this is really

empty space you have but not at the macro level at the macro level the atoms are or this is really empty space yeah but not at the macro level at the macro level the atoms are so tightly bound that essentially this chair that i'm sitting in is not empty space so tightly bound that essentially this chair that i'm sitting in is not empty space it's a solid thing that's why i don't fall through it and and have a little accident a so it's a solid thing that's why i don't fall through it and and have a little accident here so at the macro level it's not an illusion what we see here is so at the macro level it's not an illusion what we see and feel is it is a fairly accurate portrait of reality now there are see and feel is it is a fairly accurate portrait of reality now there are some people that argue that say this problem of what's it like to be a bat some people that argue that say this problem of what's it like to be a bat like i can't know what it's like to be

a bag because i don't have sonar this echolocation system and like i can't know what it's like to be a bag because i don't have sonar this echolocation system and the big ears to pick up the sound bouncing up objects in the brain the big ears to pick up the sound bouncing up objects in the brain apparatus to process the sound information and so on i can know what it's like the apparatus to process the sound information and so on i can know what it's like to be a bad back can't know what it's like to be me and so whatever let's say to be a bad a bad can't know what it's like to be me and so whatever let's say. in the environment looks like to a bat it probably doesn't look like that to me we probably have very thing in the environment looks like to a bat it probably doesn't look like that to me we probably have very different images of what the world looks like but there's still really as say a wall here different images of what the world looks like but there's still really as say a wall here and if the bat is flying toward it it's going to move around the wall

and i are and if the bat is flying toward it it's going to move around the wall and i see the wall or i feel the wall the bad here's the wall the sensory apparatus is you see the wall or i feel the wall the bad here's the wall the sensory apparatus is different the neural structure of processing the sensory information is different between me and the bat but the different the neural structure of processing the sensory information is different between me and the bat but there really are walls there really are things that we have to navigate around in the world so that really our walls there really are things that we have to navigate around in the world so that part is not an illusion that's reality so i argue that we evolved part is not an illusion that's reality so i argue that we evolve senses that give us a fairly accurate portrait of what the world is real senses that give us a fairly accurate portrait of what the world is really like and the best tool we

have for understanding that world is science because we like and the best tool we have for understanding that world is science because subjectively you and i may be wrong or or or distorted or in our subjectively you and i may be wrong or or or distorted or in our or suffering from illusions but collectively we can get an accurate picture of the world or suffering from illusions but collectively we can get an accurate picture of the world ok so well what about creativity how desk creativity. so well what about creativity how dass creativity of fact our. ability to believe in things does that mean that the richer act our ability to believe in things does that mean that the richer imagination we have the more likely we are to believe weird stuff or not necessarily imagination we have the more likely we are to believe weird stuff or not necessarily. i think there's

a relationship between this and the believing brain i. i think there's a relationship between this and the believing brain i i toyed with the idea that this relationship between say madness and creativity or that that with the idea that this relationship between say madness and creativity or that that people are they who are very open to new ideas they can they make connections that people are they who are very open to new ideas they can they make connections across disciplines or new fields that you and i maybe wouldn't make across disciplines or new fields that you and i maybe wouldn't make but that they are so open to new ideas they also believe a lot of wacky ideas but that there are so open to new ideas they also believe a lot of wacky ideas so for example i know a lot of really smart people nobel prize winners and so on so for example i know a lot of really smart people nobel prize winners and so on they believe the weirdest things like what and in part i sometimes wonder if. you believe the

weirdest things like what and part i sometimes wonder. oh that like 911 was a conspiracy or that astrology works or that oh like 911 was a conspiracy or that astrology works or that e.s.p. is real these kinds of things that most scientists and skeptics are skeptical that e.s.p. is real these kinds of things that most scientists and skeptics are skeptical they think there might be something to this talk and in the believe in brain about kary mullis why you think there might be something to this i talked in the believe in brain about kary mullis who won the nobel prize for his work in genetics the p.c.r. technique of the nobel prize for his work in genetics the p.c.r. technique of taking a little snippet of d.n.a. and then reproducing that it's a very common technique and taking a little snippet of d.n.a. and then reproducing that it's a very common technique that. kary mullis super interesting super smart creative

guy he drum he dreamt kary mullis super interesting super smart creative guy he drum he dreamt up this this solution to this problem for which he won the nobel prize while he was surfing this this solution to this problem for which he won the nobel prize while he was surfing and smoking pot and just kind of having a creative moment out in nature and smoking pot and just kind of having a creative moment out in nature you know. like you and i are not going to have that kind of experience all right or einstein had no. like you and i are not going to have that kind of experience all right or einstein has this dream of flying on a beam of light yeah whoa ok i was this dream of flying on a beam of light yeah whoa ok i don't have dreams like that but but that kind of openness and creative don't have dreams like that but but that kind of openness and creativity might lead you to think well all these other things are real not all of

them or might lead you to think well all these other things are real not all of them are real sometimes they're creative ideas you come up with are just they're just great great deal sometimes the creative ideas you come up with are just they're just great crazy they're crackerjack they're not real and so the rub here is to have is either crackerjack they're not real and so the rub here is to have a mind open enough to accept radical new creative ideas that no one else of a mind open enough to accept radical new creative ideas that no one else has thought of that turn out to be right but not so open minded that you believe every wacky has thought of that turn out to be right but not so open minded that you believe every wacky idea that comes down the pike and so you know when people say well you know they laughed at the idea that comes down the pike and so you know when people say well you know they laughed at they laughed. go away oh they laughed

at the wright brothers you know it's like well they laughed at the marx brothers being laughed at and left to go away oh they laughed at the wright brothers you know it's like well they laughed at the marx brothers being laughed at does it mean you're right so for every galileo. there's 10000 it doesn't mean you're right so for every galileo. there's 10000 other scientists who had creative new ideas and they were wrong and i encounter other scientists who had creative new ideas and they were wrong and i encountered these people all the time they send me they send me their letters every week of new theories that they have all these people all the time they send me they send me their letters every week of new theories that they have most of which are completely incomprehensible so it's not that being creative and having a new idea of which are completely and comprehensible so it's not that being creative and having a new idea means you're right and you should win the nobel prize most new ideas even in some means you're right and you should win the nobel prize most new ideas even in science even by professional scientists are not right so so it's even by

professional scientists are not right so so just one final point. just because you brought up science just one final point. just because you brought up science is just really interesting i want to ask you because i hurt the idea that suit us is just really interesting i want to ask you because i hurt the idea that pseudo scientific research usually precede scientific revolution and people try to feel and to fake research usually precede scientific revolution and they will try to fill some gaps in the existing picture of the world and. some gaps in the existing picture of the world and then the city said a scientific research leads to the so-called paradigm shift and said a scientific research leads to the so-called paradigm shift. saying that we are

actually on the verge of another scientific revolution if we look at that way to saying that we are actually on the verge of another scientific revolution if we look at that way well it depends on the field i mean most fields in the sciences are fairly well it depends on the field i mean most fields in the sciences are fairly well set it doesn't mean they're right but so here's how it works so you mention the word paradigm well set that doesn't mean they're right but so here's how it works so you mention the word paradigm so a paradigm is this sort of collective body of knowledge that most of the people working in that field and so paradigm is this sort of collective body of knowledge that most of the people working in that field agree this is pretty true these are pretty solid well supported ideas that agree this is pretty true these are pretty solid well supported ideas then around the paradigm you have these anomalies that don't quite fit and what do you do within around the paradigm you have these anomalies that don't quite fit and what do you do with the anomalies well you

assign graduate students to figure out what what the problem is the anomalies well you assign graduate students to figure out what what the problem is. or you know somebody has to try to work on that problem now if it's if or you know somebody has to try to work on that problem now if it's if it's true that there's enough of these anomalies that build up and you have a new theory that says i can expense true that there's enough of these anomalies that build up and you have a new theory that says i can explain not only the anomalies but all the the core ideas to explain not only the anomalies but all the the core ideas to then you might have a paradigm shift you might have a brand new scientific theory that overthrows then you might have a paradigm shift you might have a brand new scientific theory that overthrows the past idea doubt but the problem is that most people who think they have the past idea doubt but the problem is that most people who think they have a. paradigm shift

e new idea they don't they they've gone off the rails of a paradigm shifting new idea they don't they they've gone off the rails they just think they do but they don't and you never hear about these because they just think they do but they don't and you never hear about these because they get thrown out fairly early on they run experiments they don't pass the test or they don't even they get thrown out fairly early on they run experiments they don't pass the test or they don't even try to test their ideas they just bounce them off colleagues or friends and try to test their ideas they just bounce them off colleagues or friends and and they go nowhere and there's a lot more of those than there are the famous parents and they go nowhere and there's a lot more of those than there are the famous paradigm shifting ideas like so i'm stein comes up with you know his is theory of relativity and ideas like so i'm just i'm comes up with you know his is theory of relativity that explains some of the

things that newton couldn't explain but it's not that newton was wrong to be that explains some of the things that newton couldn't explain but it's not that newton was wrong if you want to get a spacecraft to the moon just newtonian mechanics if you want to get a spacecraft to the moon just newtonian mechanics is pretty much all you need or even to mars now there's some fine tuning with some gentlemen it's pretty much all you need or even to mars now there's some fine tuning with some general relativity adjustments made but not much so that the newton was wrong and einstein was right elative the adjustments made but not much so that the newton was wrong and einstein was right is that einstein added to the newtonian paradigm and that's usually how it works in space that einstein added to the newtonian paradigm and that's usually how it works in science it's not that this this state idea we've held on for centuries is completely wrong it's not that this this state idea we've held on for centuries is completely wrong. and we need a whole new idea you hear this

a lot by new agers who think we need a whole new idea you hear this a lot new agers who think they have a new idea but usually they don't so there's a reason science is so conservative. but usually they don't so there's a reason science is so conservative because we know that most new ideas people have are incorrect because we know that most new ideas people have are incorrect all right michael that hold your thought we're going to take a break right now. all right michael on that hold your thought we're going to take a break right now.

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talking about what's raising talking about our ability to believe and where we can get us so talking about what's real what's not what about hope which is in essence . what's not what about hope which is in essence i believe expectation that things will play out well right so is hope. expectation that things will play out well right so is hope a worthless illusion as well. hope you don't think is a worthless illusion as well. hope i don't think is a worthless illusion at all you know way hope is a project worthless illusion and all you know way hope is a projection into the future of a past that kitchen into the future of a past that can go in one direction that is more likely to lead to our survival and

flourishing go in one direction that is more likely to lead to our survival and flourishing rather than another direction that doesn't so people often describe me as an optimist rather than another direction that doesn't so people often describe me as an optimist i wrote this book called the moral arc about moral progress over the centuries and i think we can documents i wrote this book called the moral arc about moral progress over the centuries and i think we can document this in great detail you know the abolition of slavery the abolition of torture civil met this in great detail you know the abolition of slavery the abolition of torture civil rights women's rights gay rights animal rights and so on it's it's been remarkable how rights women's rights gay rights animal rights and so on it's it's been remarkable how much moral progress we've made but i'm not an optimist in the sense that that that much moral progress we've made but i'm not an optimist in the sense that that. was inevitable i'm a realist i think it could all go south was inevitable i'm

a realist i think it could all go south i mean we have to work at that and so that's kind of on a collective level if you mean by i mean we have to work at that and so that's kind of on a collective level if you mean by hope also personally. i think it does make a difference in to i hope also personally. i think it does make a difference in terms of how you interact with the world about whether you're hopeful or not in a way it's a self firms of how you interact with the world about whether you're. hopeful or not in a way it's a self-fulfilling prophecy if you're a pessimist you're more likely to see the world and enable filling prophecy if you're a pessimist you're more likely to see the world in a negative way and then maybe that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy there's a famous study done get away and then maybe that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy there's a famous study done on the luck you know some people think they're lucky some

people think they're on lucky on luck you know some people think they're lucky some people think they're on lucky as it turns out the 1st of all there's no such thing as luck that is as it turns out the 1st of all there's no such thing as luck that is lottery numbers are not more or less likely to come up because you're lucky or unlucky that lottery numbers are not more or less likely to come up because you're lucky or unlucky that doesn't exist but if you self identify as a lucky person it doesn't exist but if you self identify as a lucky person in a way that your question you're hopeful that you're going to win the lottery or thing good things will happen in a way that you're question you're hopeful that you're going to win the lottery or thing good things will happen to you turns out that people that self identify as being lucky are also score high up into you turns out that people that self identify as being lucky are also score higher and openness to experience and

extroversion so in other words they're more and openness to experience and extroversion so in other words they're more likely to talk to people trying new things go to new go go to new are likely to talk to people trying new things go to new go to new places interact with new environments and then in that way because they're open places interact with new environments and in in that way because they're open to experiences and they're extroverted like to talk to other people more good things are likely to experiences and they're extroverted like to talk. other people more good things are likely to come down their path and more opportunities for them to take advantage of me to come down their path and more opportunities for them to take advantage of and then in hindsight they look back and go boy was i ever lucky i went to the party you have and then in hindsight they look back and go boy was i ever lucky i went to that party i met this person and we got married or i met this person and got this job interview and this changed my

life i met this person and we got married and i met this person and got this job interview and this changed my life i had this career i had a great family whatever unlikely people tend to be if i had this career i had a great family whatever. unlikely people tend to be. introverted and they score low in openness to experience they don't like trip. introverted and they score low in openness to experience they don't like travel they don't like new environments they don't like to go to parties they don't like to talk to people they don't like new environments they don't like to go to parties they don't like to talk to people so they're less likely to have opportunities that come their way and then in hindsight think oh boy i wish so they're less likely to have opportunities that come their way and then in hindsight i think oh boy i was sure unlucky that i didn't have all these good things happen to me that you had happened you are unlucky that i did not have love a lot of these good things happen to me it's a no what you had said except i'll play defensively for the c.

ok that's not luck it's in it's in a way it's a self-fulfilling prophecy ok one of 3 things are going in that sense and enough says hey why not 3 things are going in that sense and then ask this flat of them mention a nation. or. reallocating what we're only now take a danger when you make them drink dreams games recent games. treat dreams dreams or soup for 3 teams or still or say no to caper so interested in ok so just bigger picture we all have to sleep every night 8 hours you've got to get 8 hours super important bigger picture we all have to sleep every night 8 hours you've got to get 8 hours super important a good portion of that 8 hours is going to be spent in rem sleep r.e.m. rapid eye movement sleep this is sometimes called paradoxical sleep because you're but a good portion of that 8 hours is going to be spent in rem sleep r.e.m.

rapid eye movement sleep this is sometimes called paradoxical sleep because your body is super super super lateral x. extended and deeply deeply asleep as deeply but your brain all the sudden become comes kind of an active did. would you would you wait wait people pull up in those states that's the go go i was i was having a drink ok say so good dreams are a kind of kind of a waking state in the sleep in which your your are a kind of kind of a waking state in the sleep in which your your brain is mostly asleep but a part of it is very active now what is it dreaming about a brain is mostly asleep but a part of it is very active now what is it dreaming about. mostly it's just random firing ok this couple kinds of dreams that one kind of but mostly it's just random firing ok this couple kinds of dreams that one kind of dream is sort of rehearsed in the day's events and we think that has to do with lame down memory trapping as

a sort of rehearsed in the day's events that we think that has to do with a lame down memory track so you have short term memory and then you have long term memory in those this in between kind of memory so you have short term memory and then you have long term memory in those this in between kind of memory and that that the dream that one kind of dream is to kind of rehearse the days of that and that that the dream that one kind of dream is to kind of rehearse the day's events and lay down memory tracks so that they're more permanent they get shifted into long term memory and said lay down memory tracks so that they're more permanent they get shifted into long term memory but a 2nd kind of dream is where there's these kind of random firings between different areas of the brain but a 2nd kind of dream is where there's these kind of random firings between different areas of the brain and you have kind of a general narrative storyteller it's in the left hemisphere and you have kind of a general narrative storyteller it's in the left hemisphere that kind of tries to string all those impulses together into

a narrative story that that kind of tries to string all those impulses together into a narrative story that makes sense and so these are the kind of crazy dreams we have like in the film makes sense and so these are the kind of crazy dreams we have like in the film. sort of oz where dorothy has this fantastic dream of going to this this wizard of oz where dorothy has this fantastic dream of going to this this world with with with witches and midgets and the world with with with witches and midgets and and you know golden paths and and then the you know the you know the cowardly and you know golden paths and and then the you know the you know the cowardly lion in the scarecrow and i turn out to be her uncles and family members and that lead line in the scarecrow and i turn out to be her uncles and family members and at the end of the movie she's saying a boy had this incredible dream and toto the dog was there and you were there and

you were the head of the movie she's saying a boy had this incredible dream and toto the dog was there and you were there and you were there and so that's the kind of dream that we have that we can make sense of like boy they are and so that's the kind of dream that we have that we can make sense of like boy i was really where ok what does it mean nothing it doesn't mean anything it was really weird ok what does it mean nothing it doesn't mean anything those are just random dreams and then finally there are the kind of dreams we've all had. those are just random dreams and then finally there are the kind of dreams we've all had that are related to things you're anxious about and so these are often frustrating drive that are related to things you're anxious about and so these are often frustrating dreams like you're trying to run away from a threat and you can't run you're going super slow aims like you're trying to run away from a threat and you can't run you're going super slow or you show up at work or school if you're a student you know naked or you don't have your or you show up at work or school if

you're a student you know naked or you don't have your homework assignment or you're missing this or that it and you can't homework assignment or you're missing this or that it and you can it's those are kind of reflective things were anxious about or worried about in this those are kind of reflective things were anxious about or worried about in the real world so what you're thinking about as you fall asleep in the real world so what you're thinking about as you fall asleep apparently does make a difference so there's this new area of trying to apparently does make a difference so there's this new area of trying to control your lucid dreams and which you as you fall asleep you think i'm going to dream and troll your lucid dreams and which you as you fall asleep you think i'm going to dream i'm going to try to dream about this and maybe write it down or whatever and i'm going to try to

dream about this and maybe write it down or whatever and some people claim that they have success in determining what kind of dreams they have and some people claim that they have success in determining what kind of dreams they have i've never tried this i think it's possible in the sense that what you think i've never tried this i think it's possible in the sense that what you're thinking about just as you fall off into sleep that may influence at least the initial dreams that you have here about just. if you do sleep influence at least the initial dreams that you have ok that's really interesting so in the eighty's there was a psychotic ok that's really interesting so in the eighty's there was a psychologist thomas landauer and he measured that individual brain college's thomas landauer and he measured that an individual brain can store only one gigabyte of knowledge and not rest the smartphone right now and store only one

gigabyte of knowledge and not smartphone right now can store tens of times more information that means that we have no way to store tens of times more information that means that we have no idea about lots of things around us and to make decisions or form opinions about about lots of things around us and to make decisions or form opinions about the things we don't know anything about we have to rely on other people's opinions which the things we don't know anything about we have to rely on other people's opinions which are based on other people's opinions and so on and so forth so without the ability or based on other people's opinions and so on and so forth so without the ability to get knowledge firsthand are we inevitably locked in this city to get knowledge firsthand are we inevitably locked in this sort of trap of wrong judgments well there's

a couple things out of trap of wrong judgments. ok there's a couple things to unpack there 1st of all that 1st study you mentioned this is this is almost surely there 1st of all that 1st study you mentioned this is this is almost surely related to this myth that we only use 10 percent of our brain yes or our brain can only study related to this myth that we only use 10 percent of our brain yes or our brain can only store so much information and so on yeah now most of that's not true or so much information and so on yeah now most of that's not true how much tell your larger point is true that is we are. we how much tell your larger point is true that is we are. we use all of our brain when you scan a subject's brain an m.r.i. the whole thing is active use all of our brain when you scan a subject's brain an m.r.i. the whole thing is active and so to measure somebody's brain activity you have to give them

a specific task and so to measure somebody's brain activity you have to give them a specific task to do usually they have a little keyboard inside the scanner they have to pick between a and b. or they have to do usually they have a little keyboard inside the scanner they have to pick between a and b. or this image of that image and that causes the blood to shift from one area to the other the whole brain is active yet to get to see image that image and that causes the blood to shift from one area to the other the whole brain is active yet to get it to be even more active so now what portion of the brain so we use all of our brain to be even more active so now what portion of the brain so we use all of our brain now but your larger point that i think is true that is we are very limited in but your larger point that i think is true that is we are very limited in both processing speed and total memory capacity now we don't know what both processing speed and total memory capacity now we don't know what the total capacity is because we're still understanding memory and whether it's things that are stored in

a capacity is because we're still understanding memory and whether the things that are stored are still in there somewhere and you can recall them or if they're gone forever there are some in between states are still in there somewhere and you can recall them or if they're gone forever there's some in between states but that aside you're more important point is that we do have technology but that aside you're more important point is that. we do have technologies for storing more information and processing it x. turn away so this is called the g.'s for storing more information and processing it x. turn only so this is called the the extended mind and your cell phone is one your family member extended mind and your cell phone is one your family members and friends your community your society the entire media the entire internet is a person friends your community your society the entire media the entire internet is another place to store information and process information that you don't have

to rely on just another place to store information and process information that you don't have to rely on just your brain so one theory about how humans became as dominant a strain so one theory about how humans became as dominant a species around the globe as we have is that we're very social species around the globe as we have is that we're very social and that we have the capacity to exchange information through sim and that we have the capacity to exchange information through symbolic language through communication initially just verbal ie but then through the language through communication initially just verbal e. but then through writing this is giving us the edge over all other species that can't do this no matter how some writing this is giving us an edge over all other species that can't do this no matter how smart they are they do not have the capacity to share that information in the kind of art they are they do not have the

capacity to share that information in the kind of detail that we can at such an extent so the idea that detail that we can at such an extent so the idea that you know this idea of wisdom that older people or why this actually has that you know this idea of wisdom that older people are wiser. this actually has a good point and in as much as before there was writing elder stored information from the kind of community memory going back to good point and in as much as before there was writing elders stored information from the kind of community memory going back multiple generations so as you're young and coming up you rely on your grandparents or the girl to pull generations so as you're young and coming up you rely on your grandparents or the great grandparents or the elders in the community to tell you what it was like 58 grandparents or the elders in the community to tell

you what it was like 50 years ago when the glacier was they are now it's not there anymore or whatever your tongue years ago when the glacier was they are now it's not there anymore or whatever you're taught you're worried about that's a kind of stored information that you can't have in your brain you're worried about that's a kind of stored information that you can't have in your brain that other people can have and we can share that and you know you talk about paradigm that other people can have and we can share that and you know you talked about paradigm shifts earlier if there's any paradigm shift we're going through now it's in communicating and shifts earlier if there's any paradigm shift we're going through now it's in communicating knowledge and information at really in real time at the speed of light knowledge and information at rate in real time at the speed of light in which you know it soon every single person on the planet all 7 and

a half in which you know it soon every single person on the planet all 7 and a half 1000000000 of us will have access to all the world's knowledge insteps 1000000000 of us will have access to all the world's knowledge instantly for free that is never been the case and he gently for free. that is never been the case in human history that is so people call it the singularity something big in history that is so people call it the singularity something big is right now. we have. right now. we have. good for your social life. good for you good for your brain good for your social life so there's a downside to that but as a tool you know it's a game. so there's

a downside to that but as a tool you know it's a game changer for sure. for sure.

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