Dr. David Eagleman

But let's say no one in the village was an entrepreneur or a neuroscientist.

And so we can't even picture that as a thing.

We don't know anything about that.

One thing that...

the internet has done for kids growing up in the digital age is that you get a lot more exposure to things.

You have so much more exposure.

I actually think this is one of the positive things that I would say about social media is that you not only get exposure, wow, that kind of thing is possible and that kind of thing is possible, but you also have people teaching you how to get there.

They say like, hey, I'm a fitness influencer.

I'm going to show you exactly how to do the thing.

Or, you know, you say, hey, here's exactly how you start a business.

Or I say, hey, here's the route that you go through undergrad and grad school to become a neuroscientist.

And that's great.

I mean, there's just there's so much more of a talent window now that everyone gets exposed to.

So I think that makes a better brain.

Here's the thing that's really important about this debate is that nobody really knows.

And I'll tell you why.

It's because to do anything in science, when you're saying something about a group, you need to have a control group that you're comparing against.

And when it comes to asking the question of, hey, kids growing up now with social media or the internet, how do they compare to other brains of kids who don't grow up with that?

Well, we don't have a control group unless you look at kids who are incredibly impoverished or let's say Quakers who don't believe in technology.

And with both those groups, there's a hundred other important differences.