Arthur Brooks

And in the pondering, you gain a certain kind of complex knowledge, which we know is, you know, the dominantly processed in the right hemisphere of the brain, right?

A big generational difference is that what's missing for a lot of people's lives today is that at night with their friends, they're not having these BS philosophical conversations about big questions that can't be answered.

That was what you did.

At 1130, after you came home from a party with your friends in college in 1985, is it like, I don't know, dude, do you think God exists?

Right?

It's like, wow, dude.

And now it's like, so we've stopped doing that one thing.

There's nothing wrong with big why questions.

The problem is that we only either ask questions that can be addressed by Google or ChatGPT, or we believe that if we have enough scientific knowledge that these questions can be answered.

Both of those are a big, big wrong turn.

They're a big wrong turn philosophically, but they're also a wrong turn neurobiologically.

Yeah, yeah.

And the whole idea is that if we dig a little deeper, we'll find it.

We dig a little deeper, we'll find it.

You're digging, like when you're in a hole.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, this is important because this is, you know, a classic mistake that people make.

This is a conceit that people have.

I talked to a guy one time who was a big part of the war on poverty in America, which was this idea that we're going to be able to wipe out poverty with social programs, with social welfare service.