Dr. David Eagleman

And so for people...

Like us who grew up before that existed, we think, oh my gosh, that's weird.

But in fact, I think it might become helpful because it can be a sandbox as long as we have the proper feedback.

In the end, we have millions of years of evolution driving us towards being with the person you love, touching another human being, watching the stars.

Taking her out to dinner with your parents.

We care about that.

And so this worry that people sometimes talk about, about, oh, people are just going to be on their phone with their AI relationship, I don't think is realistic for almost everybody.

Because it gives us the chance to hopefully sandbox some things about relationships and get over some dumb things with relationships.

And then we can actually be with our fellow humans.

Yes, but fundamentally, I want to be in contact with my wife.

I

of hundreds of millions of years is that I want to make babies.

I want to go and eat dinner with somebody.

And as much as I might find my phone appealing, I'm not going to sit it across from me at a nice Italian restaurant and sit there like that.

preclinical they'd have a different wiring which means that you know instead of doing the hard thing of going out there and going on a first date and being rejected pornography or a virtual wife might be a substitute for that yeah no i agree with you there will be bifurcations one question i don't know the answer to but one question is what would that person have done in previous generations you know is it really the case that person would have gone out and had a great successful relationship or would they always have had troubles relating to people

Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

And I think we're going to see that with everything.

I mean, the wild part about human society is that there's so little that we have in common, meaning everybody is really different.

This is something I've studied in my lab for decades, is this issue about what are the subtle differences from person to person?

Not big things like, oh, this person is a psychopath or this person has schizophrenia.