Paul Conti

I'm putting something out and you take it in.

You put something out, I take it in.

No, there's a difference.

There's a shared humanness there.

that creates a meaning beyond the transactional.

Kind of like you were just saying, the logical stuff isn't really that interesting because there's an answer to whatever logic is.

We can do math, right?

It's where does the surprises come in, right?

Either in terms of

of wonderful behavior or destructive behavior, right?

They're coming from people's emotions.

So that's what we want to understand.

And that occurs in the context of a person and other humans, you know, even if it's the conception of someone and other humans as enemy, you know, or it's the conception of two people sitting together, the idea that there's a shared humanness and it's not all transactional and that he could take that out of

a pinnacle of human tragedy and utilize it in a way that informs us being better as a species going forward, I think is really monumental.

But why is it also maybe a beautiful thing?

Well, I think you said, what's the role of emotion?

Emotion is the king, if we want to use that analogy.

It's the CEO, if we want to use that analogy, right?

Emotion rules all.

We're taught that we're logical creatures, but we have innumerable pieces of data, even over the course of just a day, let alone a human experience, to tell us that is not the truth.