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David Eagleman

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1934 total appearances

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

Yeah, that's right. Right. In terms of deciding what to say next, for example, you know, it's looking at the, you know, at your whole speech system, Wernicke's and Broca's and all these errors and saying, am I going to say something cruel or kind or whatever? But it's still using those basic mechanisms. It's taking advantage of the machinery that's there.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

Yeah, that's right. Right. In terms of deciding what to say next, for example, you know, it's looking at the, you know, at your whole speech system, Wernicke's and Broca's and all these errors and saying, am I going to say something cruel or kind or whatever? But it's still using those basic mechanisms. It's taking advantage of the machinery that's there.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

Yeah, that's right. Right. In terms of deciding what to say next, for example, you know, it's looking at the, you know, at your whole speech system, Wernicke's and Broca's and all these errors and saying, am I going to say something cruel or kind or whatever? But it's still using those basic mechanisms. It's taking advantage of the machinery that's there.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

And it just has the ability to draw on it differently than a different.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

And it just has the ability to draw on it differently than a different.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

And it just has the ability to draw on it differently than a different.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

You're thinking about neural networks as being the rats and the kind of collaboration that neural networks work out through time?

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

You're thinking about neural networks as being the rats and the kind of collaboration that neural networks work out through time?

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

You're thinking about neural networks as being the rats and the kind of collaboration that neural networks work out through time?

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

Okay, yeah.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

Okay, yeah.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

Okay, yeah.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

So here's what I think. I think... So you have all these different drives, some of which are very primitive, you know, hunger and thirst and sexuality. And so you've got all these different drives, but you have more sophisticated drives too, including various forms of short-term thinking versus long-term thinking.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

So here's what I think. I think... So you have all these different drives, some of which are very primitive, you know, hunger and thirst and sexuality. And so you've got all these different drives, but you have more sophisticated drives too, including various forms of short-term thinking versus long-term thinking.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

So here's what I think. I think... So you have all these different drives, some of which are very primitive, you know, hunger and thirst and sexuality. And so you've got all these different drives, but you have more sophisticated drives too, including various forms of short-term thinking versus long-term thinking.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

You have these different financial drives I was talking about with valuation or predicted emotional experience or social context. You've got all these different things going on. The way that they... form these agreements through time, they form these friendships, let's say, I think that makes an integrated personality.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

You have these different financial drives I was talking about with valuation or predicted emotional experience or social context. You've got all these different things going on. The way that they... form these agreements through time, they form these friendships, let's say, I think that makes an integrated personality.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

You have these different financial drives I was talking about with valuation or predicted emotional experience or social context. You've got all these different things going on. The way that they... form these agreements through time, they form these friendships, let's say, I think that makes an integrated personality.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

That's what makes you, you and me, me, is the way that we let these things win or lose in different circumstances. In other words, All unconsciously, these networks have worked out ways of saying, all right, look, I'm going to let you in here and I'm going to do this. And maybe there's an advantage to letting anger win out in this moment. You know, I find that that works sometimes.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
523. Why We Dream, Learn, and Adapt Faster Than Any Other Species | Dr. David Eagleman

That's what makes you, you and me, me, is the way that we let these things win or lose in different circumstances. In other words, All unconsciously, these networks have worked out ways of saying, all right, look, I'm going to let you in here and I'm going to do this. And maybe there's an advantage to letting anger win out in this moment. You know, I find that that works sometimes.