Brett Weinstein
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first heard Aug 2026
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That system still works in all of us.
It's just being thrown data that confuses it.
And creating these kinds of regular patterns in your life makes sense to the extent that you can avoid chemicals that disrupt your body's capacity to figure out what time of day it is or what mode it should be in.
That's a good idea.
To the extent that you have to use something to get to sleep, using something that is as minimally disruptive as possible, like melatonin is likely to be much better because it's a natural trigger of neurological systems than something synthesized in a lab novel-y.
And, you know, interestingly, we talk in the book about the patterns that children pick up when they are learning what it's like to be a human and when to go to sleep.
And we talk about the question of whether or not there are signals in breast milk that may allow a mother, you know, we tend to think of breast milk as food, but it's food plus a lot of information.
And
The mother may be sending information to the baby about what time it is.
It's time to start ratcheting down and heading towards sleep.
And if you've used a breast pump and not recorded the time of day that you pumped the breast milk and you feed the child that milk at an arbitrary time, you may be sending chaotic messages.
Yeah, it's nonsense, and it's nonsense in several different ways.
One thing that has to be said is that we make the point very strongly in the book that just because something is cultural does not take it out of the realm of evolutionary and adaptive.
Culture is just as adaptive as genes.
It is just as biological.
And so even noticing that certain things are transmitted culturally does not free you from obligation to the evolutionary logic.
But
The more subtle point, I think, is that the logic of male and female, as Heather points out, are incredibly ancient and they are also incredibly consistent.
So if one looks at a plant, a flower that has both male and female parts, you can notice that the female parts are much more reluctant about having sex with strangers than the male parts.
That has nothing to do with.
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