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David Eagleman

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Sometimes they're the people with the deepest internal demons that they're fighting.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah, although what's interesting is that every group... is on a really broad distribution. So that will always be available to people to say, I like you, but I think that in your group, whatever group it is, there are people who do XYZ and I don't like that. So what's interesting is that chess move will always be available to those guys. Yeah, that's true.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah, although what's interesting is that every group... is on a really broad distribution. So that will always be available to people to say, I like you, but I think that in your group, whatever group it is, there are people who do XYZ and I don't like that. So what's interesting is that chess move will always be available to those guys. Yeah, that's true.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Yeah, although what's interesting is that every group... is on a really broad distribution. So that will always be available to people to say, I like you, but I think that in your group, whatever group it is, there are people who do XYZ and I don't like that. So what's interesting is that chess move will always be available to those guys. Yeah, that's true.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

It actually wouldn't make sense for them to meet one young woman who they think is really great and then say, oh, I used to have these political opinions, but now I've changed my mind entirely because of an N of one.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

It actually wouldn't make sense for them to meet one young woman who they think is really great and then say, oh, I used to have these political opinions, but now I've changed my mind entirely because of an N of one.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

It actually wouldn't make sense for them to meet one young woman who they think is really great and then say, oh, I used to have these political opinions, but now I've changed my mind entirely because of an N of one.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Here's the thing. So there's two things I would say there. One is that, interestingly, if you measured any of these Klansmen who had hung up their robe, you'd probably find this really low level circuitry in their brain having a difference in their reaction to black and white. But this is an example of the guy layering on cognition and what we might call wisdom and saying, hey, you know what?

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Here's the thing. So there's two things I would say there. One is that, interestingly, if you measured any of these Klansmen who had hung up their robe, you'd probably find this really low level circuitry in their brain having a difference in their reaction to black and white. But this is an example of the guy layering on cognition and what we might call wisdom and saying, hey, you know what?

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Here's the thing. So there's two things I would say there. One is that, interestingly, if you measured any of these Klansmen who had hung up their robe, you'd probably find this really low level circuitry in their brain having a difference in their reaction to black and white. But this is an example of the guy layering on cognition and what we might call wisdom and saying, hey, you know what?

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Even though my very first reaction is this, I know that if I sit down at the bar with this guy and talk to him, he obviously had a desire to do that to see if he could discover something new. then he can do something wonderful. And obviously, we all know as kids we grow up, whatever neighborhood we're in, we're maybe exposed to all these races and religions, but not these other ones.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Even though my very first reaction is this, I know that if I sit down at the bar with this guy and talk to him, he obviously had a desire to do that to see if he could discover something new. then he can do something wonderful. And obviously, we all know as kids we grow up, whatever neighborhood we're in, we're maybe exposed to all these races and religions, but not these other ones.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Even though my very first reaction is this, I know that if I sit down at the bar with this guy and talk to him, he obviously had a desire to do that to see if he could discover something new. then he can do something wonderful. And obviously, we all know as kids we grow up, whatever neighborhood we're in, we're maybe exposed to all these races and religions, but not these other ones.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And so it's easy with our in-group, out-group proclivities to say, okay, that's an out-group. But then you go to college, you meet people of various things. This is the whole game. It's just meeting lots of people and seeing that... Look, here's how I view it. Humans moved out of Africa about 250,000 years ago.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And so it's easy with our in-group, out-group proclivities to say, okay, that's an out-group. But then you go to college, you meet people of various things. This is the whole game. It's just meeting lots of people and seeing that... Look, here's how I view it. Humans moved out of Africa about 250,000 years ago.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

And so it's easy with our in-group, out-group proclivities to say, okay, that's an out-group. But then you go to college, you meet people of various things. This is the whole game. It's just meeting lots of people and seeing that... Look, here's how I view it. Humans moved out of Africa about 250,000 years ago.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Humans started radiating north out of Africa and some turned left and became Europeans, some turned right and became Asians. And... That period of time is so short from a biological point of view. We're all exactly the same on the inside. We've all got brains and lungs and hearts. If you look from the point of view of a biologist, there's no difference between people.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Humans started radiating north out of Africa and some turned left and became Europeans, some turned right and became Asians. And... That period of time is so short from a biological point of view. We're all exactly the same on the inside. We've all got brains and lungs and hearts. If you look from the point of view of a biologist, there's no difference between people.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Humans started radiating north out of Africa and some turned left and became Europeans, some turned right and became Asians. And... That period of time is so short from a biological point of view. We're all exactly the same on the inside. We've all got brains and lungs and hearts. If you look from the point of view of a biologist, there's no difference between people.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1123: David Eagleman | Your Prehistoric Brain on Modern Problems

Obviously, cultural differences exist. Religious differences exist. There's all kinds of local cultural stuff, but people are the same. So the important part is to figure out how do we find ways to reach across the aisles? And so one of my... Big interests is if I can get to the right ears, the right place to tweak the social media algorithms. So here's what I mean.