Dr. Michael Kilgard

And that's been the history of science.

We didn't ruin things when we found out that the sun's not revolving around us.

It made it better when we found out we're revolving around the sun.

We're not the only galaxy.

All those things were good for us.

But at first, people were really nervous about having the answer.

I've just been surprised that finding the answer keeps being the good thing.

You'd rather have the answer.

There are no answers we don't want.

That's really surprising to me.

Because it could have turned out we're all bad and there's nothing here and all the nihilist philosophies and all the rest would be right.

But that doesn't appear to be the case.

And all that comes from this sort of friction, this reflection, all these issues, learning about how the brain works, all the way down to the biological level, all the way up to societies and groups of people who continue to be mostly pro-social.

mostly taking care of each other, mostly not destroying the earth, figuring things out, making adjustments.

The ozone layer had a hole in it.

We made some changes.

That seems very reasonable.

We may not be fast about it all the time, but we tend to make the right path, both in science as well as in our species.

And I think that's because they're both using the same mechanism.

We get feedback from the world.