Bret Weinstein

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?

Or maybe you'll take up gathering some material, or maybe you'll invent farming. But the point is, wherever you are in either space or time, that your ancestors' wisdom is no longer highly productive. you will be triggered into this second mode, which we would call consciousness. So the first mode is culture. Second mode is consciousness.

Or maybe you'll take up gathering some material, or maybe you'll invent farming. But the point is, wherever you are in either space or time, that your ancestors' wisdom is no longer highly productive. you will be triggered into this second mode, which we would call consciousness. So the first mode is culture. Second mode is consciousness.

Or maybe you'll take up gathering some material, or maybe you'll invent farming. But the point is, wherever you are in either space or time, that your ancestors' wisdom is no longer highly productive. you will be triggered into this second mode, which we would call consciousness. So the first mode is culture. Second mode is consciousness.

And the idea of consciousness is that human beings have the capability of doing something no other creature can do. We can exchange abstract ideas between individuals. And that means—and we use the metaphor of a campfire for this—

And the idea of consciousness is that human beings have the capability of doing something no other creature can do. We can exchange abstract ideas between individuals. And that means—and we use the metaphor of a campfire for this—

And the idea of consciousness is that human beings have the capability of doing something no other creature can do. We can exchange abstract ideas between individuals. And that means—and we use the metaphor of a campfire for this—

That a human population will gather around the campfire at night and they will talk about whatever they've observed in their habitat and they will talk about what opportunities there are there and how those opportunities might be exploited. And they will parallel process the puzzle, right? Every member of the group has different skills and insights.

That a human population will gather around the campfire at night and they will talk about whatever they've observed in their habitat and they will talk about what opportunities there are there and how those opportunities might be exploited. And they will parallel process the puzzle, right? Every member of the group has different skills and insights.

That a human population will gather around the campfire at night and they will talk about whatever they've observed in their habitat and they will talk about what opportunities there are there and how those opportunities might be exploited. And they will parallel process the puzzle, right? Every member of the group has different skills and insights.

And so in talking about how the new opportunities might be exploited, they will come up with some prototype for a new way of being. So the argument I've made is during normal times, your ancestors knew pretty well how to exploit the habitat that you'll be born into. You should take their wisdom and deploy it.

And so in talking about how the new opportunities might be exploited, they will come up with some prototype for a new way of being. So the argument I've made is during normal times, your ancestors knew pretty well how to exploit the habitat that you'll be born into. You should take their wisdom and deploy it.

And so in talking about how the new opportunities might be exploited, they will come up with some prototype for a new way of being. So the argument I've made is during normal times, your ancestors knew pretty well how to exploit the habitat that you'll be born into. You should take their wisdom and deploy it.

If you are at the edge of that habitat or you are at the point where that habitat changes and it isn't any longer productive to try to do what your ancestors did, you will engage in this conscious exchange of insight, consciousness that will allow you to innovate a new niche.

If you are at the edge of that habitat or you are at the point where that habitat changes and it isn't any longer productive to try to do what your ancestors did, you will engage in this conscious exchange of insight, consciousness that will allow you to innovate a new niche.

If you are at the edge of that habitat or you are at the point where that habitat changes and it isn't any longer productive to try to do what your ancestors did, you will engage in this conscious exchange of insight, consciousness that will allow you to innovate a new niche.

And at the point you've got that new niche pretty well figured out, it will be turned into a culture that will be passed on to future generations until it's no longer useful. So that process accounts, we believe, for the... radical variation in niches that human beings inhabit. Thousands of niches over the history of our species. That's unlike any other creature.

And at the point you've got that new niche pretty well figured out, it will be turned into a culture that will be passed on to future generations until it's no longer useful. So that process accounts, we believe, for the... radical variation in niches that human beings inhabit. Thousands of niches over the history of our species. That's unlike any other creature.

And at the point you've got that new niche pretty well figured out, it will be turned into a culture that will be passed on to future generations until it's no longer useful. So that process accounts, we believe, for the... radical variation in niches that human beings inhabit. Thousands of niches over the history of our species. That's unlike any other creature.

For any other creature, once you've named the species, you've pretty much named a niche, some way of being that that species engages in. For human beings, this isn't true. Human beings are like thousands of different species.