Dr. Stephen Hicks

And then the action that's going to be embodied in that use also in many cases seems to be built into the perception. I think if we unpack that more, there's still going to be a very sophisticated set of learning we have to do about what is built into the physiological system and the psychological system at birth and how much of it is learned. Definitely.

Yeah, because I don't think we want to say that, you know, even in the 21st century where we come into the world born with kind of a precognized understanding of pens.

Yeah, because I don't think we want to say that, you know, even in the 21st century where we come into the world born with kind of a precognized understanding of pens.

Yeah, because I don't think we want to say that, you know, even in the 21st century where we come into the world born with kind of a precognized understanding of pens.

And how to use pens. I don't even know if we have that. We have a certain physiological structure that, and a certain conceptual structure that's built on that, such that, and it's going to be very flexible and amenable to different environmental circumstances to adapt to and conceive of things, whatever their intrinsic properties, as potential tools.

And how to use pens. I don't even know if we have that. We have a certain physiological structure that, and a certain conceptual structure that's built on that, such that, and it's going to be very flexible and amenable to different environmental circumstances to adapt to and conceive of things, whatever their intrinsic properties, as potential tools.

And how to use pens. I don't even know if we have that. We have a certain physiological structure that, and a certain conceptual structure that's built on that, such that, and it's going to be very flexible and amenable to different environmental circumstances to adapt to and conceive of things, whatever their intrinsic properties, as potential tools.

yeah well a lot of that so let me just it's just to try another example to get to uh because i like the the earlier movie example and the male female difference one thing that comes up in couples is how they learn to be tuned to each other's voices and the sound of their own voice. So couples who, before they met each other, would go to a loud party and they would be talking to each other.

yeah well a lot of that so let me just it's just to try another example to get to uh because i like the the earlier movie example and the male female difference one thing that comes up in couples is how they learn to be tuned to each other's voices and the sound of their own voice. So couples who, before they met each other, would go to a loud party and they would be talking to each other.

yeah well a lot of that so let me just it's just to try another example to get to uh because i like the the earlier movie example and the male female difference one thing that comes up in couples is how they learn to be tuned to each other's voices and the sound of their own voice. So couples who, before they met each other, would go to a loud party and they would be talking to each other.

Yeah, that's a really good example. Yeah, that's right. And, you know, there's just noise and it's a big decibel level, right? But then once they become couples and they have heard each other say their name, say Jordan, Stephen, right, or whatever, they can be in a relatively loud party separated across the room, right? And the guy's wife says, Stephen, right?

Yeah, that's a really good example. Yeah, that's right. And, you know, there's just noise and it's a big decibel level, right? But then once they become couples and they have heard each other say their name, say Jordan, Stephen, right, or whatever, they can be in a relatively loud party separated across the room, right? And the guy's wife says, Stephen, right?

Yeah, that's a really good example. Yeah, that's right. And, you know, there's just noise and it's a big decibel level, right? But then once they become couples and they have heard each other say their name, say Jordan, Stephen, right, or whatever, they can be in a relatively loud party separated across the room, right? And the guy's wife says, Stephen, right?

And he can pick that out of that incredible instrument of sounds.

And he can pick that out of that incredible instrument of sounds.

And he can pick that out of that incredible instrument of sounds.

Yeah, because you've automated certain... Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, because you've automated certain... Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, because you've automated certain... Yeah, that's right.

So that centers now... What the postmoderns do, right, is that they take what I think is a virtue, right? That we can automate all of these things and we can learn to detect various things and focus on this, that, and the other thing. all of which are great strengths of the human consciousness, and they turn them into negatives, they turn them into vices.