Arthur Brooks

I'm sure it's true she loves me.

Tonight I could call and she might be completely pissed off at me.

That adds a level of complexity, I grant you.

Correct.

She's a big pulsing right hemisphere, right?

Sure enough.

But this is the thing.

The reason I love my marriage is because it's unsolvable.

The reason people want to get a real cat and not a mechanical cat is because it's alive.

And things that are alive are right brain problems.

And things that are mechanical are left brain problems.

And so what we've done is we've solved life.

We've solved life.

The engineering, the Silicon Valley set of solutions for everything that we're trying to do that actually pops through the screen at us, that dominates our culture, that increasingly can be simulated and understood through artificial intelligence.

All that's doing is it's a curve fit through the messy business of life using these left brain algorithms.

And that's not going to get done what we need to get done.

It is going to leave us.

lonelier and more depressed and more anxious.

Here's the thing.

Your brain knows.