Ari Wallach

we have to confront as a society is that there are parts of us, the prefrontal cortex parts of us that are amazing, that build microphones, that have conversations that stream across the internet. And then there are parts of us, you know, this is Jonathan's elephant in the rider.

we have to confront as a society is that there are parts of us, the prefrontal cortex parts of us that are amazing, that build microphones, that have conversations that stream across the internet. And then there are parts of us, you know, this is Jonathan's elephant in the rider.

There are parts of us that happen below the surface that have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years of legacy. And we often want to either be up here and say, oh, we're so smart, we're so great, or we want to wallow in the kind of the death and despair and the horrific things that we can do to one another.

There are parts of us that happen below the surface that have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years of legacy. And we often want to either be up here and say, oh, we're so smart, we're so great, or we want to wallow in the kind of the death and despair and the horrific things that we can do to one another.

There are parts of us that happen below the surface that have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years of legacy. And we often want to either be up here and say, oh, we're so smart, we're so great, or we want to wallow in the kind of the death and despair and the horrific things that we can do to one another.

You know, my personal past on my father's side is I think some of the darkest moments in homo sapien behavior, and that was not that long ago. So if we want to move into a place that allows us to ask what I think is the fundamental question of our time, which is how do we become the great ancestors the future needs us to be?

You know, my personal past on my father's side is I think some of the darkest moments in homo sapien behavior, and that was not that long ago. So if we want to move into a place that allows us to ask what I think is the fundamental question of our time, which is how do we become the great ancestors the future needs us to be?

You know, my personal past on my father's side is I think some of the darkest moments in homo sapien behavior, and that was not that long ago. So if we want to move into a place that allows us to ask what I think is the fundamental question of our time, which is how do we become the great ancestors the future needs us to be?

We need to find a way to both tap into the elephant and the rider, which you'll do a better job of me in explaining than I will.

We need to find a way to both tap into the elephant and the rider, which you'll do a better job of me in explaining than I will.

We need to find a way to both tap into the elephant and the rider, which you'll do a better job of me in explaining than I will.

You're jumping ahead a little bit, but that's okay. Because what you're jumping into is When we ask and we want to have an empathic connection, we want to have empathy with future generations, We don't want it to just be cognitive. We don't want it just to be intellectual. We actually want it to be emotional.

You're jumping ahead a little bit, but that's okay. Because what you're jumping into is When we ask and we want to have an empathic connection, we want to have empathy with future generations, We don't want it to just be cognitive. We don't want it just to be intellectual. We actually want it to be emotional.

You're jumping ahead a little bit, but that's okay. Because what you're jumping into is When we ask and we want to have an empathic connection, we want to have empathy with future generations, We don't want it to just be cognitive. We don't want it just to be intellectual. We actually want it to be emotional.

So if I ask someone, what do you want the future to be like for your great grandkids in the 2080s? And they give me a list of kind of bullet points, but they're usually externalized bullet points.

So if I ask someone, what do you want the future to be like for your great grandkids in the 2080s? And they give me a list of kind of bullet points, but they're usually externalized bullet points.

So if I ask someone, what do you want the future to be like for your great grandkids in the 2080s? And they give me a list of kind of bullet points, but they're usually externalized bullet points.

Yeah. And then I follow up and, you know, we've done this and other people much smarter than me have done this study. We say, Jakob Tropp at NYU is the one who taught me this. How do you want them to feel? That's different, right? This is Damasio's – this is somatic marker hypothesis theory, right? Where if you really want something to happen, it's not just about visualizing it.

Yeah. And then I follow up and, you know, we've done this and other people much smarter than me have done this study. We say, Jakob Tropp at NYU is the one who taught me this. How do you want them to feel? That's different, right? This is Damasio's – this is somatic marker hypothesis theory, right? Where if you really want something to happen, it's not just about visualizing it.

Yeah. And then I follow up and, you know, we've done this and other people much smarter than me have done this study. We say, Jakob Tropp at NYU is the one who taught me this. How do you want them to feel? That's different, right? This is Damasio's – this is somatic marker hypothesis theory, right? Where if you really want something to happen, it's not just about visualizing it.