There's a certain level of trust in emergence rather than in control Uh, there's a certain even at the individual level where you have to I always like to say the dishes don't do themselves You have to do them. We spend a lot of our evolutionary history without control at all uh living outside so Uh with predators so they're It's a natural impulse and I'm not sure it's such a healthy one in our environment So talk about and react that if you want then talk about what you see as the role of evolutionary psychology in thinking about these issues.
Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychotherapeutic insights of Buddhism and the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. Wright argues our evolutionary past has endowed us with a mind that can be ill-suited to the stress of the present. He argues that meditation and the non-religious aspects of Buddhism can reduce suffering and are consistent with recent psychological research.