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Bret Weinstein

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The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

I can say I have doubts about the methodology that he used. He depended on something called FMRI, functional MRI scanning, which in theory allows you to see the activity of different regions of the brain when asked to think certain thoughts or do certain tasks. But there's a lot of difficulty in calibrating FMRI

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

I can say I have doubts about the methodology that he used. He depended on something called FMRI, functional MRI scanning, which in theory allows you to see the activity of different regions of the brain when asked to think certain thoughts or do certain tasks. But there's a lot of difficulty in calibrating FMRI

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

Because you need to know what the baseline activity of the brain is in order to subtract out all of the activity that isn't relevant. So in any case, we can put that aside and just say, I'm not certain that what his empirical work involved was robust, but even let's say it is. He is not, broadly speaking, trained as a biologist in any way that I can see.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

Because you need to know what the baseline activity of the brain is in order to subtract out all of the activity that isn't relevant. So in any case, we can put that aside and just say, I'm not certain that what his empirical work involved was robust, but even let's say it is. He is not, broadly speaking, trained as a biologist in any way that I can see.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

Because you need to know what the baseline activity of the brain is in order to subtract out all of the activity that isn't relevant. So in any case, we can put that aside and just say, I'm not certain that what his empirical work involved was robust, but even let's say it is. He is not, broadly speaking, trained as a biologist in any way that I can see.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

And so he, to his credit, said that he was out of his depth talking about issues of biology related to vaccines, epidemiology, all of the relevant pieces of biological science. But then he argued that I was also out of my depth, which, you know, I'm not a specialist in terms of vaccines, immunology, epidemiology, but evolution is relevant to all of those things.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

And so he, to his credit, said that he was out of his depth talking about issues of biology related to vaccines, epidemiology, all of the relevant pieces of biological science. But then he argued that I was also out of my depth, which, you know, I'm not a specialist in terms of vaccines, immunology, epidemiology, but evolution is relevant to all of those things.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

And so he, to his credit, said that he was out of his depth talking about issues of biology related to vaccines, epidemiology, all of the relevant pieces of biological science. But then he argued that I was also out of my depth, which, you know, I'm not a specialist in terms of vaccines, immunology, epidemiology, but evolution is relevant to all of those things.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

And I'm perfectly capable of teaching myself the parts that I didn't know when COVID began. And anyway, he portrayed me as incapable. And when I had expert advice, guests, people like Pierre Corey and Robert Malone on my channel to talk about these things, unarguable experts, people with fantastic credentials.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

And I'm perfectly capable of teaching myself the parts that I didn't know when COVID began. And anyway, he portrayed me as incapable. And when I had expert advice, guests, people like Pierre Corey and Robert Malone on my channel to talk about these things, unarguable experts, people with fantastic credentials.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

And I'm perfectly capable of teaching myself the parts that I didn't know when COVID began. And anyway, he portrayed me as incapable. And when I had expert advice, guests, people like Pierre Corey and Robert Malone on my channel to talk about these things, unarguable experts, people with fantastic credentials.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

He literally dismissed them as possibly schizophrenic, that that would be an explanation for their dissident status. Oh, no. It was pretty rotten and... Rather than... Grappling with what they said. Right. It would have been tremendously productive for us to have the argument. People could then have evaluated for themselves instead of having him lob grenades from afar and play to his audience.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

He literally dismissed them as possibly schizophrenic, that that would be an explanation for their dissident status. Oh, no. It was pretty rotten and... Rather than... Grappling with what they said. Right. It would have been tremendously productive for us to have the argument. People could then have evaluated for themselves instead of having him lob grenades from afar and play to his audience.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

He literally dismissed them as possibly schizophrenic, that that would be an explanation for their dissident status. Oh, no. It was pretty rotten and... Rather than... Grappling with what they said. Right. It would have been tremendously productive for us to have the argument. People could then have evaluated for themselves instead of having him lob grenades from afar and play to his audience.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

But in any case, I think what has happened to Sam is tragic. And it's a cautionary tale of some kind. I think he effectively has been convinced by something of the correctness of his position. Frankly, his adherence to it is...

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

But in any case, I think what has happened to Sam is tragic. And it's a cautionary tale of some kind. I think he effectively has been convinced by something of the correctness of his position. Frankly, his adherence to it is...

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

But in any case, I think what has happened to Sam is tragic. And it's a cautionary tale of some kind. I think he effectively has been convinced by something of the correctness of his position. Frankly, his adherence to it is...

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

He's mad about Islam and he's un-nuanced about it. Now, I do think he is correct in one regard about radical Islam and the danger of it, but I think it has blinded him to a larger story in which Islam is an ancient tradition that has in many places attempted to modernize. Some of those attempts have been more successful than others.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

He's mad about Islam and he's un-nuanced about it. Now, I do think he is correct in one regard about radical Islam and the danger of it, but I think it has blinded him to a larger story in which Islam is an ancient tradition that has in many places attempted to modernize. Some of those attempts have been more successful than others.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker and Bret Weinstein Debate Evolution, God’s Existence, Israel, and Will AI Gain Consciousness?

He's mad about Islam and he's un-nuanced about it. Now, I do think he is correct in one regard about radical Islam and the danger of it, but I think it has blinded him to a larger story in which Islam is an ancient tradition that has in many places attempted to modernize. Some of those attempts have been more successful than others.