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Lisa Feldman Barrett

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“Yeah, I really don't like heartbreak. I don't like heartbreak. I want there to be a happy ending, or at least... A hopeful ending. But Dr. Chivago or the English patient, oh my goodness, like why? Oh, it's just, yeah, no.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just very gentle. Another book like that is the storied life of AJ Fierke, which is also a love story, but in this case it's a love story between a little girl and her adopted dad. And the dad is this real curmogeny, you know, guy. But of course, there's a story there. And it's just a beautiful love story, but it also, it's like everybody in this community falls in love with him because he falls in love with her. And he, you know, she just gets left at his store, his bookstore, has this failing bookstore. And he Discovers that he feels like inexplicably this need to take care of this little baby and this whole life emerges out of that one decision, which is really beautiful, actually. Very poignant”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There isn't one thing. There are many different things that make a good love story, but I think in this case, you can feel you can feel the journey. You can feel the journey that these characters are on and all the people around them are on this journey too, basically to come to grips with this really unexpected love, really profound love that develops between these two characters who are very unlikely to have fallen in love, but they do.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think all good popular science books are storytelling, but storytelling grounded, constrained by the evidence. And then I just want to say that there are for fiction, I'm a really big fan of love stories just to return us to the topic that we began with. And so some of my favorite love stories are major pedigrees last stand by Helen Simonson. It's a love story about people who you wouldn't expect to fall in love and all the people around them who have to overcome their prejudices. I love this book.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, there's also the evolution of beauty Yeah, which is also a great book. But no, the beak of the finch, it's a It has two storylines that are interwoven. One is about Darwin and Darwin's explorations in the Galapagos Island. And then modern-day researchers from Princeton who have a research program in the Galapagos looking at Darwin's finches. And it's just a really, first of all, there's top-notch science in there. And really, evolutionary biology that a lot of people don't know. And it's told really, really well.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's another conversation. To be continued. But I would say if I were to pick one book that I think is a really good example of good science writing, it would be The Beak of the Finch. It won a Pulitzer Prize a number of years ago. And I'm not remembering the author's name. I'm blanking.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Good half, right? But You know, he wanted his goal actually is to produce. Videos and lectures that are beautiful and educational and that don't Don't dumb the material down. And he's really remarkable at it, actually. I mean, just, but again, you know, that requires a bit of a paradigm shift. We could have a whole conversation about the split between entertainment and education in this country and why it is the way it is.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I completely agree with you. And in fact, I have a colleague. His name is Van Yang, who, you know, he produced cinematic lecture of how motions are made that we wrote together with Joseph Fridman. Relat”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So Kurt Danzinger is a The opening chapter in that book is. Absolutely mind blowing. I Love it. I love it. I just think it's fantastic. And I would say that there are many, many popular science books that I could recommend that I think are extremely well written in their own way. You know, before I maybe I said this to you, but before I undertook writing how emotions are made, I read, I don't know, somewhere on the order of 50 or 60 popular science books to try to figure out how To write a popular science book because while there are many books about writing, Stephen King has a great book about writing. On writing, or he gives tips interlaced with his own personal history, that was where I learned you write for a specific person. You have a specific person in mind. And that's for me, that person is Dan.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's about the origin of where did we get the theory of mind that we have that the human mind is populated by thoughts and feelings and Perceptions and where did those categories come from? Because they don't exist in all cultures”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, your brain is a prediction machine. It's using lots and lots of information, combining it. Anyway, so, but So, biology's ideology is, I wouldn't say it's one of the greatest books of all time, but it is a really useful book. There's a book by, if you're interested in psychology or the mind at all, there's a wonderful book, it's a fairly small book called Naming the Mind by Kurt Danzinger, who's a historian of psychology. Everybody in my lab reads both of these books.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So the answer is it's a combination of temperature and touch. But it's a complex sense that's only computed in your brain. There's no receptor for it. Anyways.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I have my reaction too, right? I was like. Of course, we don't because we evolved in the water. Like, why would we need, you know, it just was just this, you have these moments where you're like, oh.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was just going to say that I just learned recently that we don't have water receptors on our skin. So how do you know when you're sweating? How do you know when a raindrop, when it's going to rain and, you know, like a raindrop hits your skin and you can feel that little drop of wetness? How is it that you feel that drop of wetness when we don't have? Water receptors in our skin. And I was when I”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, but, you know, but here's a really cool thing I just learned recently Is it okay to go off on the tangent for a minute”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. It's a wonderful book. I've read it probably six or seven times throughout the year. He has another book, too, which is... It's more, I think, scientists would find it. I don't know. I've loved it. It's called Biology as Ideology. And it really is all about, I wouldn't call it one of the best books of all time, but I love the book because it really does point out science as it's currently practiced. I mean, the book was written in 1991, but it actually, I think, still holds, that science is currently practiced, has a set of ontological commitments which are somewhat problematic.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Between a set of genes and an environment that turns those genes on and off to produce your brain and your body and really who you are at any given moment.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes Actually, you know, every PhD student, when they graduate with their PhD, I give them a little library, like a set of books, you know, some of which they've already read, some of which I want them to read. But I think nonfiction books, I would read the things I would recommend are the Triple Helix by Richard Luanton. It's a little book published in 2000, which is, I think, a really good introduction to complexity. Population thinking as opposed to essentialism. So this idea essentialism is this idea that there's an essence to each person, whether it's a soul or your genes or what have you, as opposed to this idea that we have the kind of nature that requires a nurture. the product of a complex dance.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That it currently has and the incentive structure that it currently has. Will we have an answer? No, I think absolutely not. Good luck is what I would say.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Want to say unrigorously, I just want to say that there are a certain set of assumptions that scientists have what I would call ontological commitments. They're commitments about the way the world is or the way that nature is. And these commitments lead scientists sometimes blindly, scientists sometimes, sometimes scientists are aware of these commitments, but sometimes they're not. And these commitments on the less influence how scientists ask questions, what they measure, how they measure. And I just have very different views than a lot of my colleagues about the ways to approach this. Not everybody, but the way that I would approach it would be different and it would cost more and it would take longer. It doesn't fit very well into the current incentive structure of science. And so do I think that doing science the way science is currently done with the budget?”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is but I wasn't necessarily saying that it was a question that was of equivalent complexity. I was saying that I do think that we could get to Some optimistic that I would not, I would be very willing to invest the time, my time on this earth as a scientist in trying to answer that question if I could do it the way that I want to do it, not the way that it's currently being done.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that we will understand it as well as we understand other things like the birth of the universe or the nature of the universe. I guess I would say. So do I think we can get to that level of an explanation? I do, actually. But I think that we have to start asking somewhat different questions and approaching the science somewhat differently than we have in the past.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“very high dimensional and the there are different temporal scales of influence right so the state of your gut is not just influenced by what you ate five minutes ago it's also what you ate a day ago and two days ago and and so on so I think You know, I'm not trying to weasel out of the question, I just think it's a, it's. The hardest question, actually.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, no, there isn't. So when you feel When you feel discomfort, when you're feeling basically like shit, you feel like shit. What does that tell you? Like, what are you supposed to do next? What caused it? I mean, the thing is, not one thing caused it, right? It's multiple factors probably influencing your physical state. Your body budget is very...”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your brain makes you. Or gives you a status report, in a sense, by virtue of these mental features of feeling pleasant, feeling unpleasant, feeling comfortable, feeling uncomfortable, feeling energetic, feeling tired, and so on. And so how the hell is it doing that? That is the basic question of consciousness.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's fair That's fair. So maybe we should say that bit again then So if some people may be working out, some people may be relaxing, but even if you're sitting very still while you're watching this or listening to this, there's a whole drama going on inside your body that you're largely unaware of.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, how is it that your brain gives you this very low dimensional feeling of mood or affect when it's presumably receiving a very high dimensional array of sense data? And the model that the brain is running of the body has to be high dimensional because there's a lot going on in there, right? You're not aware, but as you're sitting there quietly, as your listeners, as our viewers are sitting, there might be.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think, you know, well, first of all, just say up front, I am not a philosopher of consciousness and I'm not a neuroscientist who focuses on consciousness. I mean, in some sense, I do study it because I study affect and mood. And that's the, you know, to use the phrase, that is the hard question of consciousness. How is it that your brain is modeling your body? Brain is modeling the sensory conditions of your body. And it's being updated. That model is being updated by the sense data that's coming from your body. And it's happening continuously your whole life. And you don't feel those sensations directly. What you feel is a general sense of pleasantness or unpleasantness, comfort discomfort, feeling worked up, feeling calm. So we call that affect. Most people call it mood.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, body budget's a little more solvent. And that will also make it more likely that certain thoughts will emerge from that prediction.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can also do things to change the conditions of your body. When you exercise every day, you're making an investment in your body. Actually, you're making an investment in your brain too. It makes your, even though it's unpleasant and there's a cost to it, if you replenish, if you invest and you make up that deposit and you make up that what you've spent, you're basically making an investment in making it easier for your brain to control your body in the future. So you can make sure you're hydrated. Drink water. You don't have to drink bottled water. You can drink water from the tap. This is in most places, maybe not, you know, maybe not everywhere, but most places in the developed world. You can try to get enough sleep. Not everybody has that luxury, but everybody can do something to make.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm just making the point that. What if you again not everybody has control over their environment? Some people don't have control over the noise or the temperature or any of those things. But everybody is a little bit of control and you can place things in your environment, photographs. Plants, anything that's meaningful to you, and use it as a shift of environment when you need it.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You are the sum of your experiences and who you are in any given moment. Meaning what your actions will be is influenced by the state of your body and the state of the world that you've put yourself in. And you can change either of those things. One is a little easier to change than the other, right? You can change your environment by literally getting up and moving. Or you can change it by paying attention to some things differently and letting other some features come to the fore and other features be backgrounded. Like I'm looking around your place.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's a dynamic system, Mr. Engineer. It's a dynamical system, right? Nonlinear dynamical system. I think that's, I'm actually writing a paper with a bunch of engineers about this, actually. But I mean, other people have talked about the brain as a dynamical system before. the real tricky bit is trying to figure out how do you get mental features out of that system like it's one thing to figure out how you get a motor movement out of that system it's another thing to figure out how you get a mental feature like a feeling of being loved or a feeling of being worthwhile or a feeling of you know just basically feeling like how do you get a feeling a mental features out of out of that system um so i would what i would say is that you aren't the the buddhist thing to say is that you're not one person and you're not many people you are um”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your brain is having a conversation continually with your body, and your body, your brain's, you know, trying to control your body, well, trying. Your brain is controlling your body, your body is sending information back to the brain. And in part, the information that your body sends back to your brain. Just like the information coming from the world. Initiates the next volley of predictions or simulations So, in some ways, you could also say The way that you feel, I think we talked before about affective feeling or mood coming from the sensations of body budgeting. Influences what you think. And as much as so feelings influence thought, as much as thought influenced feeling and maybe more.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Amazing capacity, it has a population of experiences that you've had that it can regenerate, reconstitute, and it can even take bits and pieces of those experiences and combine them into something new. And it's often doing this to predict what's going to happen next and to plan your actions, but it's also happening, this also happens just That's what mind wandering is or just internal thought and so on. It's the same mechanism really. And so a lot of times we hear the saying, you know, just think if you think differently, you'll feel differently.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Suppose you could think of it that way, but there's another way to think of it, I think, and that is that maybe the more Buddhist way to think of it, right? Or a more contemplative way to think about it, which is not that you have multiple personalities inside your head, but you have, your brain has this”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but the one thing I do want to say is that the risk of saying be yourself, just be yourself, is that that can be used as an excuse. Well, this is just the way that I am. I'm just like this. And that I think should be tremendously resisted.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Different context will put certain things or make more. Some features be more in the foreground and some in the background. It takes us back right to our discussion earlier about Stalin and Hitler and so on. The thing that I would caution, in addition to the fact that there is no single self that you have multiple selves who you can be, and you can certainly choose the situations that you put yourself in to some extent. Not everybody has complete choice, but everybody has a little bit of choice. And I think I said this to you before, that one of the pieces of advice that we gave Sophia, you know, when she went our daughter, when she was going off to college was Try to spend time around people, choose relationships that allow you to be your best self. We should have said you're best selves, but”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a very western question, first of all, because which self are you talking about? Don't have oneself. There is no self that's an essence of you. You have multiple selves. Actually, there is research on this, you know, to quote the great social psychologist Hazel Marcus. You cannot be a self by yourself. You know, you, and so different contexts pull for or draw on different features of who you are or what you believe, what you feel, what your actions are.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are places to learn about that, right? So, for example, think about children and their blankets. So there's something tactile and there's something olfactory. And it's very comforting. I mean, even for non human little animals, right? Like puppies and, so I don't know about cats, but cats.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Could you have a relationship literally with an inanimate object and have it sustain you in the way that another human could? Your life would probably be shorter because you wouldn't actually derive the body budgeting benefits from, right? So we've talked about, you know, how your brain, its most important job is to control your body and you can describe that as your brain running a budget for your body. And there are metaphorical deposits and withdrawals into your body budget. And you also make deposits and withdrawals in other people's body budgets figuratively speaking. So you wouldn't have that particular benefit. So your life would probably be shorter. But I think it would be harder for some people than for other people.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you had to make it work, could you? Could you prediction and simulation, right? So if you had to make it work, could you make it work using simulation and your past experience? Could you make it work?”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I suppose that's an empirical question that hasn't been answered yet I guess what I would say is I don't think I could Could any human, could the average human? I want to even modify that and say, I'm thinking now of. Tom Hanks and the movie.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think people have been doing it for centuries It used to be the case that people wrote letters to each other And then that was how they communicated.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have a similar origin to the human system for language. So the parts of the brain that are important for processing language are not unique and specialized for language. They do many things. And one of the things they do is control your major organ systems.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think we just have to look at the anatomy of the brain to answer that question. If you look at the parts of the brain, the systems that are important for processing language, you can see that some of these regions are also important for controlling your major organ systems and your autonomic nervous system that controls your cardiovascular system, your respiratory system, and so on, that these regions control your endocrine system, your immune system, and so on. And you can actually see this in other animals too. So in birds, for example, the neurons that are responsible for bird song also control the systems of a bird's body. And the reason why I bring that up is that there's some scientists think that the anatomy of a bird's brain that control bird song are homologous or structured.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the size of your big brain, it's the size it should be. If you add all those things together and they interact with each other, that produces some pretty remarkable results. And if you're aware of that, Then you can start asking different kinds of questions about what it means to be human and what kind of a human you want to be and what kind of a world do you want to curate for the next generation of humans. So I think that's the goal anyways, right? It's just to have a glimpse of Instead of thinking about things in a simple linear way, just have a glimpse of some of the things that matter that seemed, that evidence suggests matters to the kind of brain in the kind of bodies that we have. Once you know that, you can work with it a little bit”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, particularly well adapted to our niche. On the other hand, our niche is huge, and we, you know, we don't just adapt to our environment, we add to our environment. We make stuff up, give it a name, and then it becomes real. And so no other animal can do that. And so I think the way to think about it from my perspective or the way I made sense of it is to say you can look at any individual single characteristic that a human has. That seems remarkable. And you can find that in some other animal. What you can't find in any other animal is all of those characteristics together. In a brain that is souped up in particular ways like ours is. And if you combine these things multiple interacting causes, right, not one essence like your cortex, your big neocortex, but which isn't really that big. I mean, it's just big for your big brain.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. Exactly. They're not able to. So that's the tension, right? So on the one hand, you know, we're not special animals. We're just, you know,”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be similar, but I don't think I just think there are too many degrees of freedom, there are too many degrees of freedom. I mean, one of the real tensions in writing this book is to, on the one hand, there's some truth in saying that humans are not We are just We're not special in the animal kingdom. All animals are well adapted. If they're survived, they're well adapted to their niche. It does happen to be the case that our niche is large. For any individual human, your niche is whatever it is. But for the species, right, we live almost everywhere, not everywhere, but almost everywhere on the planet. Not in the ocean, and actually other animals like bacteria, for example, have us beat miles hands down, right? By any definition, we're not special. We're just adapted to our environment.”
2020-11-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source