Bret Weinstein

And so his point, which I think is accurate, is that it is humans in a an arms race with other humans that caused the radical elaboration of our capacity to puzzle solve, to think, to exchange abstractions. Now, I would add to that, and Heather and I have written on this, that the mechanism, we argue that there is a flip-flop that will happen in evolutionary modes for human beings.

And so his point, which I think is accurate, is that it is humans in a an arms race with other humans that caused the radical elaboration of our capacity to puzzle solve, to think, to exchange abstractions. Now, I would add to that, and Heather and I have written on this, that the mechanism, we argue that there is a flip-flop that will happen in evolutionary modes for human beings.

And so his point, which I think is accurate, is that it is humans in a an arms race with other humans that caused the radical elaboration of our capacity to puzzle solve, to think, to exchange abstractions. Now, I would add to that, and Heather and I have written on this, that the mechanism, we argue that there is a flip-flop that will happen in evolutionary modes for human beings.

So as we talked about a few minutes ago, humans are special in the sense that the genome, which is still the thing that is trying to get into the future, has solved genome problems by offloading the adaptive capacity to our software layer, right? Once your software layer has the capacity to adapt and is not tethered to changes in your genome, well, now you can evolve very rapidly.

So as we talked about a few minutes ago, humans are special in the sense that the genome, which is still the thing that is trying to get into the future, has solved genome problems by offloading the adaptive capacity to our software layer, right? Once your software layer has the capacity to adapt and is not tethered to changes in your genome, well, now you can evolve very rapidly.

So as we talked about a few minutes ago, humans are special in the sense that the genome, which is still the thing that is trying to get into the future, has solved genome problems by offloading the adaptive capacity to our software layer, right? Once your software layer has the capacity to adapt and is not tethered to changes in your genome, well, now you can evolve very rapidly.

But how do you do it? And what Heather and I argued in our book is that there is a flip-flop between two modes of evolution. cognitive functioning for humans. One of them is the mode that you employ when your relationship to your environment is very much like your ancestors' relationship to their environment.

But how do you do it? And what Heather and I argued in our book is that there is a flip-flop between two modes of evolution. cognitive functioning for humans. One of them is the mode that you employ when your relationship to your environment is very much like your ancestors' relationship to their environment.

But how do you do it? And what Heather and I argued in our book is that there is a flip-flop between two modes of evolution. cognitive functioning for humans. One of them is the mode that you employ when your relationship to your environment is very much like your ancestors' relationship to their environment.

So in other words, if you are in a circumstance and your grandparents knew how to live in the place that you live, it does not make sense to be trying to figure out some new way to be. What makes sense is for you to do whatever they were doing and maybe improve it if you could figure out how.

So in other words, if you are in a circumstance and your grandparents knew how to live in the place that you live, it does not make sense to be trying to figure out some new way to be. What makes sense is for you to do whatever they were doing and maybe improve it if you could figure out how.

So in other words, if you are in a circumstance and your grandparents knew how to live in the place that you live, it does not make sense to be trying to figure out some new way to be. What makes sense is for you to do whatever they were doing and maybe improve it if you could figure out how.

But in general, what you should do is you should accept the ancestral wisdom in a cultural form, and you should learn to do whatever it is your people do, and you should do it as well as you can and upgrade it if that's an opportunity. But there comes a place either in space or in time when whatever it is that your ancestors were doing is no longer productive, right?

But in general, what you should do is you should accept the ancestral wisdom in a cultural form, and you should learn to do whatever it is your people do, and you should do it as well as you can and upgrade it if that's an opportunity. But there comes a place either in space or in time when whatever it is that your ancestors were doing is no longer productive, right?

But in general, what you should do is you should accept the ancestral wisdom in a cultural form, and you should learn to do whatever it is your people do, and you should do it as well as you can and upgrade it if that's an opportunity. But there comes a place either in space or in time when whatever it is that your ancestors were doing is no longer productive, right?

So if you imagine that your people are, I don't know, maybe you hunt elk. Well, if we move far enough across space, there'll be some place where there aren't elk, right? Where the habitat isn't hospitable to them. Maybe it's too dry, right?

So if you imagine that your people are, I don't know, maybe you hunt elk. Well, if we move far enough across space, there'll be some place where there aren't elk, right? Where the habitat isn't hospitable to them. Maybe it's too dry, right?

So if you imagine that your people are, I don't know, maybe you hunt elk. Well, if we move far enough across space, there'll be some place where there aren't elk, right? Where the habitat isn't hospitable to them. Maybe it's too dry, right?

And so you could take the ancestral wisdom that talks about how to hunt elk, or you could recognize that that's not very productive here, and we need to do something else. So I don't know exactly what it is that you'll move to, but you'll have to innovate some new way of being. Maybe you'll take up— I don't know, hunting smaller game, right?

And so you could take the ancestral wisdom that talks about how to hunt elk, or you could recognize that that's not very productive here, and we need to do something else. So I don't know exactly what it is that you'll move to, but you'll have to innovate some new way of being. Maybe you'll take up— I don't know, hunting smaller game, right?