Joseph Henrich
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1,282 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
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Well, I guess with the point – I mean obviously he's a special individual.
Although there's a – he did spend the whole second half of his career trying to show why quantum mechanics was wrong.
Yeah.
So his Brownian motion paper is foundational in quantum mechanics.
Yeah.
But then he decides, you know, God doesn't play dice with the universe, and he doesn't like the stochastic nature of quantum mechanics, which has, you know, more or less proved true, and it's part of our modern technology and stuff like that.
And he spends the whole second half of his career fighting it.
So that's a case where his intuitions didn't serve him well.
And he turned out to be wrong for decades.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I try to implement the ideas of the collective brain.
So in my lab at Harvard, I have postdocs and graduate students with backgrounds in evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, economics.
I mean, some of my favorite collaborators are economists.
And we're just bringing ideas from very different places.
But
Across the social sciences, even the biological sciences, we're often trying to explain the same kind of phenomena, economic decision-making, cooperation, things like ethnicity, why does it exist, stuff like that.
Yeah.
The way we silo science is a big problem.
And especially in the social science, I think it's even a bigger problem.
One of my experiences, so I've been a professor of anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology.
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