David Eagleman

Nice. Let me just unpack that for the listener. It's that when you say, okay, this is my view, I've got this, then the uncertainty is reduced. Yeah, to almost nothing.

That's right. And one of the main, exactly. One of the main goals of the brain always is to reduce energy expenditure. Of course. On the, on the immediate timescale. Yeah, of course. Yep. Of course.

That's right. And one of the main, exactly. One of the main goals of the brain always is to reduce energy expenditure. Of course. On the, on the immediate timescale. Yeah, of course. Yep. Of course.

That's right. And one of the main, exactly. One of the main goals of the brain always is to reduce energy expenditure. Of course. On the, on the immediate timescale. Yeah, of course. Yep. Of course.

Oh, lovely.

Oh, lovely.

Oh, lovely.

It's like, oh, okay. And it's a positive feedback loop because once you have your point of view on something, then, of course, we know about confirmation bias and other ways where you seek data that merely validates and you ignore the data that speaks against it.

It's like, oh, okay. And it's a positive feedback loop because once you have your point of view on something, then, of course, we know about confirmation bias and other ways where you seek data that merely validates and you ignore the data that speaks against it.

It's like, oh, okay. And it's a positive feedback loop because once you have your point of view on something, then, of course, we know about confirmation bias and other ways where you seek data that merely validates and you ignore the data that speaks against it.

Right. Exactly. By the way, which makes me want to come back to a point that you mentioned about socially seeing people as friends or foes. In fact, the way we see most people in the world are strangers. Yeah. You don't need to worry. Yeah, exactly. You're relevant. Most things are irrelevant. Exactly. Most things are irrelevant. Yeah, yeah. And thank God for that. Yeah, exactly.

Right. Exactly. By the way, which makes me want to come back to a point that you mentioned about socially seeing people as friends or foes. In fact, the way we see most people in the world are strangers. Yeah. You don't need to worry. Yeah, exactly. You're relevant. Most things are irrelevant. Exactly. Most things are irrelevant. Yeah, yeah. And thank God for that. Yeah, exactly.

Right. Exactly. By the way, which makes me want to come back to a point that you mentioned about socially seeing people as friends or foes. In fact, the way we see most people in the world are strangers. Yeah. You don't need to worry. Yeah, exactly. You're relevant. Most things are irrelevant. Exactly. Most things are irrelevant. Yeah, yeah. And thank God for that. Yeah, exactly.

So that's analogous here.

So that's analogous here.

So that's analogous here.

Oh, they cause you to pay attention. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, they cause you to pay attention. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, they cause you to pay attention. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Right, right. And you know what I was going to say? This also ties back to another thing about maturation. Maturation, as I think it was Fitzgerald who said, is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in mind at the same time. So what we're trying to do always is get our aim to reduce the entropy, our worldview. But as we mature, we say, okay, look, it could be this.