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Coltan Scrivner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2161 total appearances

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

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1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

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1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Somebody give me a description.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Yeah, I just want a description.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

It's awful.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Yeah.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And again, like most people, when they watch that feel awful.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And yet they still feel compelled to be like, oh, I kind of want to know what it is, though, not because I'm glad it happened, not because I approve of it, not because I think it's a good thing, not because I even feel neutral about it, but specifically because I feel bad about it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Right.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Because it feels awful.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

I give an example in the book of.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Darwin noticed it does seem like humans do that more often.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

So he talks about these monkeys that he heard about.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Darwin, of course, was famous for his theory of evolution.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

He was a theorist, not an empirical scientist, didn't do studies.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

But he heard about this story from a zoologist named Alfred Brim, who gave a story about these monkeys that saw a snake inside of a bag.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

This was an experiment that he did.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

A monkey would look inside the bag and scream, and then another monkey would come up and look inside the bag and scream and run away.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And it's exactly what you're describing here, where people are like, oh, I've seen this.