Marc Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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If you can't bring real nature inside, can you look at simulations of nature?
So I kind of look at it as a staircase like that.
And, you know...
I would hope that we're trying to kind of make this be a more serious and important issue that we really have to think about this.
And it kind of goes back to the very first thing that we were talking about, which is that humans underestimate how much the physical environment impacts their behavior, impacts their cognition, in part because we have so much control over it.
And I think...
We need to, you know, imagine we took that control and we really designed buildings and cities and towns with schools with this in mind.
I think, you know, it could have profound consequences.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I think it's folly to ignore it.
But again, it's not trivial to make the case and to really take it seriously.
And I don't want to be...
If somebody really asked me today, okay, so Mark, design this school that will optimize kids' attention and working memory, I think I would have some ideas, but I would feel a little uncomfortable because I'm not sure I would know exactly how to do it correctly.
I do believe...
Having more green space around, letting the kids go out and actually use the green space, bringing some green space in, having natural patterns on the walls or on the floors.
I do think all those things would produce benefits.
But it'd be hard for me if you said, okay, Mark, here's $20 million.
Is it worth it to do that versus doing something else?
That's where I think...
I would feel a little bit uncomfortable.
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