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The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)

Uncertain Things

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The Importance of Metaphors in the Evolution of Ideas

"How do you know that even if it's not just a metaphor, like when you had a lecture about conflict or you have an idea of, I'm trying to think of all those like evolutionary psychology terminologies?" he asks. "I mean, the reality is you try very hard to instrumentalize the concept." He adds: "It doesn't capture everything but at least it gives you this lingua franca"

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