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Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is True

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The Importance of Trust in Emergence

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.

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