Dr. David Eagleman

And so that's why polarization, if there are things we can do as a society to work on that, to try to get better models of the other person, to have meaningful debates and listen to the other side.

It doesn't mean coming to agree with them or whatever, but it means saying, OK, you

So I'm going to assume the other person is speaking genuinely.

What is their reason for holding this political position?

Also, by the way, having a better notion of our own internal models, which is that we are extraordinarily limited.

This is actually what my next next book is about.

It's called Empire of the Invisible.

And it's about why we all believe our own internal models.

We've all taken very thin trajectories through space and time.

And we've collected up our little scraps of data and we think, oh, I know the truth.

I know how to think about the world and these political issues.

And if I could just shout in all capital letters on X loudly enough, everyone would come to agree with me.

Essentially, everyone thinks this deep down, irrespective of what their political position is.

And that's weird that we can't see the fence lines of our own internal models.

So I think it's really important that this gets built all the way down into our education system at the high school level, maybe even junior high, where we understand the limitations of our own model.

We understand how to try to understand other people's models.

We understand when it's appropriate to blind our biases, you know, in the way that, for

do a blind audition of a musician behind a curtain.

So you can't have the opportunity for discrimination based on gender or race or anything else.

You're just hearing, oh, that was a great oboe player.