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E25: Apple and Facebook, Crypto and VR, Open vs Closed Ecosystems

"Moment of Zen"

CHAPTER

The Power of Ideas

Sally Kohn: Our brain isn't naturally like, you know, super rational in terms of what is actually true and looking for truth first. What our brain is using ideas for is to give us more status, basically. With climate change, she says, there's all this uproar about the US not signing the Paris Treaty. And yet how little reflection has been in the process whereactually the concern is underpopulation? She thinks that independently, regardless of whether it's contributing to climate change, yes, that seems like a logical and actually beneficial thing to societyfor a variety of reasons.

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