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Dr. Brian Keating

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Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And so in the language of the science, philosophy of science, Karl Popper, others, it's unfalsifiable. And you cannot be proven right. It's so flexible. You're going to find challenges. The stock market is going to fluctuate. Political turmoil, rain during your life. They're so flexible, it can accommodate any story. And that's a hallmark of non-science or sometimes anti-scientific thinking.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And so in the language of the science, philosophy of science, Karl Popper, others, it's unfalsifiable. And you cannot be proven right. It's so flexible. You're going to find challenges. The stock market is going to fluctuate. Political turmoil, rain during your life. They're so flexible, it can accommodate any story. And that's a hallmark of non-science or sometimes anti-scientific thinking.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And so in the language of the science, philosophy of science, Karl Popper, others, it's unfalsifiable. And you cannot be proven right. It's so flexible. You're going to find challenges. The stock market is going to fluctuate. Political turmoil, rain during your life. They're so flexible, it can accommodate any story. And that's a hallmark of non-science or sometimes anti-scientific thinking.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And not only correlated with that, something even more perhaps basic is temperature, right? In the hemisphere that you're born in, you would expect that all – I'm born, as I said, September 9th. It turns out that's the statistically most common birth date of humans on Earth. And why is that?

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And not only correlated with that, something even more perhaps basic is temperature, right? In the hemisphere that you're born in, you would expect that all – I'm born, as I said, September 9th. It turns out that's the statistically most common birth date of humans on Earth. And why is that?

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And not only correlated with that, something even more perhaps basic is temperature, right? In the hemisphere that you're born in, you would expect that all – I'm born, as I said, September 9th. It turns out that's the statistically most common birth date of humans on Earth. And why is that?

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Exactly, right? So there's a correlation, right? Yeah, they're at home and they're indoors. They're at home. And they're procreating. Right. Or another thing is what month you're born in, you go back nine months. So actually, capitalism is awesome, right? So it's so efficient. So when you go to CVS, and I've known this several times, thank God, because my wife's been pregnant several times.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Exactly, right? So there's a correlation, right? Yeah, they're at home and they're indoors. They're at home. And they're procreating. Right. Or another thing is what month you're born in, you go back nine months. So actually, capitalism is awesome, right? So it's so efficient. So when you go to CVS, and I've known this several times, thank God, because my wife's been pregnant several times.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Exactly, right? So there's a correlation, right? Yeah, they're at home and they're indoors. They're at home. And they're procreating. Right. Or another thing is what month you're born in, you go back nine months. So actually, capitalism is awesome, right? So it's so efficient. So when you go to CVS, and I've known this several times, thank God, because my wife's been pregnant several times.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And and we have several kids. And when you go to CVS, it's actually pretty interesting. She goes there to buy a pregnancy test. Now, she's the kind of neurotic, you know, person that she had to buy like five pregnancy tests for each kid. OK, I don't know why, but that's what she did. So she's a she likes data.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And and we have several kids. And when you go to CVS, it's actually pretty interesting. She goes there to buy a pregnancy test. Now, she's the kind of neurotic, you know, person that she had to buy like five pregnancy tests for each kid. OK, I don't know why, but that's what she did. So she's a she likes data.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

And and we have several kids. And when you go to CVS, it's actually pretty interesting. She goes there to buy a pregnancy test. Now, she's the kind of neurotic, you know, person that she had to buy like five pregnancy tests for each kid. OK, I don't know why, but that's what she did. So she's a she likes data.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Yes, unless it's a systematic error. And that's what I want to talk to you about later when it comes to the eye and other things. You go to CVS, you buy a pregnancy test, and she's on their gold plan program, whatever. She got the gold card from CVS because she's on it so many times. But when you go there, they know you're getting a pregnancy test.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Yes, unless it's a systematic error. And that's what I want to talk to you about later when it comes to the eye and other things. You go to CVS, you buy a pregnancy test, and she's on their gold plan program, whatever. She got the gold card from CVS because she's on it so many times. But when you go there, they know you're getting a pregnancy test.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Yes, unless it's a systematic error. And that's what I want to talk to you about later when it comes to the eye and other things. You go to CVS, you buy a pregnancy test, and she's on their gold plan program, whatever. She got the gold card from CVS because she's on it so many times. But when you go there, they know you're getting a pregnancy test.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

So exactly nine months later, we start getting advertisements for Pampers and for diapers and for diaper creams and wipes and stuff. So they know They don't know this. They don't know... They're hedging even without knowing the results of the test. Yeah, exactly. What's the downside for them?

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

So exactly nine months later, we start getting advertisements for Pampers and for diapers and for diaper creams and wipes and stuff. So they know They don't know this. They don't know... They're hedging even without knowing the results of the test. Yeah, exactly. What's the downside for them?

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

So exactly nine months later, we start getting advertisements for Pampers and for diapers and for diaper creams and wipes and stuff. So they know They don't know this. They don't know... They're hedging even without knowing the results of the test. Yeah, exactly. What's the downside for them?

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Anyway, so the temperature, right? So if you're gestating during summertime versus wintertime, that obviously will have some kind of an effect. I mean, you can tell me a lot more than that. But more than that, you hinted at this, and I'm not going to make you do any math surrounding pregnancy, but God forbid... I put out the correction to that. I defended you. I defended you.

Huberman Lab
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life | Dr. Brian Keating

Anyway, so the temperature, right? So if you're gestating during summertime versus wintertime, that obviously will have some kind of an effect. I mean, you can tell me a lot more than that. But more than that, you hinted at this, and I'm not going to make you do any math surrounding pregnancy, but God forbid... I put out the correction to that. I defended you. I defended you.