Dr. David Eagleman

You care more about them just because I arbitrarily told you that they're your allies.

And so when things get complexified like this, we suddenly care more about certain groups and so on.

Anyway, I think this is a really important thing to do.

So I've patented a new social media algorithm which essentially works simply by surfacing what people have in common.

So if you and I are both on this algorithm, oh, we've got this in common, that in common, and all those things get surfaced and we come to know each other and like each other and only later –

temporally down the line, do we hear, oh, wow, I didn't realize you felt so differently about gun control or abortion or whatever.

We learn that later.

And then we're more willing to lean in and talk.

Yeah, I wish I shared that optimism on that front.

But, you know, the fact is in Rwanda, Hutu and Tutsi had been intermarrying for a long time.

In Germany, Jews and Christians had been intermarrying there for a long time.

But when stuff hits the fan, none of that matters.

And people will still make dividing lines and say, hey, if you've got some of this in you, you're on the other side.

I wish I had a more optimistic note there.

So I'm writing the podcast, Inner Cosmos, which is- Awesome podcast, I listen to it.

Thank you.

Thanks.

And that's a really wonderful way for me to put out lots of ideas.

Often I do, you know, mostly it's monologue, but I do have guests as well.

And I get to just tackle big philosophical questions about time, about polarization, about whatever.