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Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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What Is the Problem With Latent Creativity?

In the book, i lay this next to another graph, which is the maturation of a certain part of the brain called the prefernal cortex. It seems to be part of the problem with creativity. The idea as kind of the p f c allows you to focus, but by causing you to focus in a lazier like way,. You're not seeing things in the periphery that children are constantly distracted by. So evolutions this problem. We can't remain like children. Our whole lives. We have to become adults.

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