Bret Weinstein
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17,116 appearances
31 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Bret Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There will have been times in history and prehistory, presumably many of those times, at which those differences did exist between human populations and
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In those cases
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Higher intelligence would have been favored and would have gone to fixation, which means that
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Those with those cannons.
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genetic characteristics would have out competed those without them and
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The entire population would therefore have them going forward.
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So in effect, what I'm arguing is that yes, there will have been cognitive differences based in genetic modifications of our brains.
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that differed between populations in the past.
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And then went to fixation and we all benefit from them.
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In other words, the reason that human beings are so
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Intelligent is that the
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human ancestors that were more intelligent, outcompeted human ancestors that were less intelligent.
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So that is certainly something that can be true.
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But when you talk about Ramanujan or John von Neumann or Einstein or any of the people that we all Darwin people we agree were highly intelligent.
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You're making an assumption
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In a population in which the
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You don't have barriers to mating about the relationship between intellectual capability and uh something something importantly related to it.
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written into the genes.
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And I believe that this is a leap in logic that is very comforting to some and very frightening to others, but for which the evidence is effectively non existent.
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Has there been some level of
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