Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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We're always syncing up with other people.
When a nine-month-old listens to music, they are syncing up to the sounds and rhythms of their culture's music and they're synced up physiologically with whomever is in their midst.
when we go to a concert or we watch a sporting event.
If you like sports, your heart rate is syncing up, your brains are synchronizing.
And that in some sense is the materialistic account of collective consciousness.
We're all sharing brain patterns and awareness.
And I think that,
It's part of some of our deepest forms of awe.
And music, now the current science of music is like, it is very hard to get people to think collectively in the same way.
When you teach a classroom, it's impossible, but music does it within milliseconds, right?
When you talk to people who've been to Taylor Swift shows who are Swifties, it's serious, right?
United in like a moral cause almost or an identity cause.
So that's profound.
That's very hard work to do.
And when Jonathan Haidt and I wrote about awe early in our careers, we were like, we need these emotions to make us be part of collectives because we are a very collective species.
It was one of our signature strengths is to fold into groups and to cooperate and share.
It's hard work, it's vulnerable to exploitation.
And awe is one of the fastest pathways
It's through what you're talking about, through physical dancing together, chanting together, sporting events together, what Emile Durkheim called collective effervescence, right?
Music, just syncing up with each other, feeling like we're part of this vast group, sharing a sense of humanity.
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