David Eagleman
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But possibilism is a much more active thing of saying, hey, we're going to go out and explore the possibility space and shine a flashlight around this and try to figure out what's going on.
Yeah.
To this day, every time I see religious conflict, it just blows my mind.
I mean, the whole history of Europe over the last 500 years was defined by fights between the Catholics and the Protestants.
I don't mean fights.
I mean killing, like murdering.
And it feels like you look at this stuff and it's so goofy.
And yet, this is the history that we have been surrounded with and still have to deal with in a lot of the world.
I feel like
I think I'm correct in looking at the world now in 2022 and thinking, okay, we're maturing a bit, at least much of the world is maturing out of this idea of, okay, this particular ancient religion that I was taught is the truth.
Yeah.
But anyway, I hope that's right.
Yeah.
I mean, so this is gonna be my next cup.
So I'm running three companies right now, but this is going to be my next one is called live wire because I'm really interested in building this.
I mentioned this before.
I just feel like the way we think about building all our technology now and the way that everything is set up, our factories are set up and our education system is set up is okay.
Yeah.
You make a hardware layer and then you put software on top of it.
And that's been a great idea and it's been super successful, but it's just not the way that biology ever does anything.