Harnwell

For two and a half thousand years, Western philosophy, that's exactly what it is.

It's the meta-analysis using the reflective capacity to analyze the reflective capacity.

That would certainly be a sign, wouldn't it, that AI has established true consciousness if it were able to do that.

But one question I have for you is that nearly every culture in one way or another through the course of time has found myths that sanctify war from the Iliad to Jihad.

Do you think that myth-making is a neural necessity, a way to make sense of that fear that the amygdala drives?

We literally only have three minutes but I think your area of study here is absolutely fascinating because you're starting off on the individual basis on the anatomy of the human brain and then expanding forward to how all the human exemplars react together and how they share social

attributes based on on the hard wiring in the brain just in terms because you mentioned them you mentioned russia and ukraine and china earlier on using the insights of the of the specific anatomy of the brain this tension between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex just just

So you're basically suggesting that the element of aggression is always going to be there.

This is aside from the theological concepts of sin and what have you.

On the biological thing, that aggression is always going to be there.

It's always going to be there on the social and political level.

But as you said at the beginning, what you're trying to do is get...

from the understanding of knowing thyself to work forward and find a way of understanding that reality and that aggression is always going to be there to find a way to contain it, right?

Dr. Wright, could you just tell us where people can go to get that book that you've published, Warhead, how the brain shapes war and the war shapes brain?

And where do people go to keep up with your research on social media?

Dr. Nicholas Wright.

I'm very grateful for you coming on.

And I'm specifically grateful that you were able to handle these extremely complex terms in a way that I, as a non-specialist, can understand.

But it was very instructive.

Thank you for that.