The Evidence That Chemical Neuro Diversity Improves Collective Thinking

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The author has written about the benefits of nerro diversity in his work. He says that getting together with colleagues at a bar can be good for collective thinking. But he was also pointing out that you can have chemical neuro diversity with your own different mental states, right?

Do we have alcohol to thank for civilization? The answer, according to Edward Slingerland’s new book, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” is a resounding yes. Edward, who’s a professor at the University of British Columbia and self-proclaimed “philosophical hedonist,” says that far from being an evolutionary fluke, our taste for alcohol is an evolutionary advantage — one that we’ve relied on for millennia to help us lead more social, creative, and pleasurable lives.