Tim Urban

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics · 20 Feb 2023 podcast

Now, Mars Inc.

is a huge company.

Yeah, it's not perfect.

Obviously, there's a lot of crossover.

There's people who will yell at me for saying there's two minds.

But to me, it's still a useful framework where you have this software that has making decisions based on a world that you're not in anymore.

And then you've got this other character.

I call it the higher mind.

And it's the part of you that knows that skills are not good and can override the instinct.

And the reason you don't always eat Skittles is because the higher mind says, no, no, no, we're not doing that because that's bad.

And I know that, right?

Now you can apply that to a lot of things.

The higher mind is the one that knows I shouldn't procrastinate.

The primitive mind is the one that wants to conserve energy and not do anything icky and, you know, can't see the future.

So he procrastinates that, you know, you can apply this.

No, I, in this book, apply it to, um,

to how we form our beliefs is one of the ways, and then eventually to politics and political movements.

But if you think about, well, what's the equivalent of the Skittles tug of war in your head for how do you form your beliefs?

And it's that the primitive mind in the world that it was optimized for, it wanted to...

feel conviction about its beliefs it wanted to be sure that it was um it wanted to feel conviction and it wanted to agree with the people around there didn't want to stand out it wanted to to perfectly agree with the tribe about the tribe's sacred beliefs right and so there's a big part of us that wants to do that that doesn't like changing our mind it feels like it's part of our the primitive mind identifies with beliefs it feels like it's a threat a physical threat to you so

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