Noam Hassenfeld
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4,749 appearances
107 recordings
15 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5d ago
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I mean, we became humans within the last couple hundred thousand years.
It's nothing.
We have been so wildly vulnerable for our evolutionary history.
Yeah.
And who knows what's gonna happen to us now, but when I think about what Anton is putting forward here,
It just makes me feel small in the best way.
You know, it sort of makes me feel like that similar feeling of looking up at the stars and feeling really small in this huge expanding universe.
But instead, it's like looking out at the species and feeling small and
like looking at this enormous family tree of evolution and seeing all these other species that found their really good homes, you know, that got sucked into these gravitational poles that Anton talks about where there's no need to keep evolving because that's where they are.
They're fine there for a long time.
And, you know, honestly, I'm comparing this to the feeling of looking up at the stars, but one of the things that I really loved about this article and, you know, the thing that really stood out to me that I didn't get to talk about much was this metaphor of gravity, of evolution as gravity.
And thinking about the evolution of our species on Earth in a similar way to the evolution of the universe and how gravity is shaping everything in the universe and evolutionary gravity is shaping it on Earth.
I don't know, it is a metaphor that sits with me in a really nice way that makes me feel small and humble and in awe of the world in a really nice way.
So...
That's the thing that I'm excited for listeners to get from the article when they go and check it out, this sort of long meditation on evolution and gravity.
Yeah, I definitely never would have thought birds were as advanced as they are.
And I also never would have thought to ask, like, what triggers lightning?
I mean, I guess I always want to know what it is, but I never thought about what triggers it.
And asking that question, which I never would have thought to ask, allows me to now understand that there might be, what, cosmic shrapnel coming in and starting it.
Oh, and listeners, please send us articles.
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