Joy Hirsch

Joy told me, These people were not pretending.

They were not like debaters that take, you know, a negative side and a positive side.

And her working hypothesis for what this means is... The sharing of information involves higher levels of communication, that people are learning, so that there's a consensus there.

of what is being shared, what's going on.

The amount of territory that the brain has devoted to

to disagreement was astonishing to me.

And this is beyond the data.

The observation that so much neural energy is consumed by disagreement, and there are so many areas that are coordinated during disagreement, that tells me that this is a very important

Huh.

Others might have other interpretations.