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#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

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Did the Human Brain Evolve to Think?

The big caveat here is that we don't really know why brains evolved. And so, you know, thinking is something that rationality is something that humans, at least in the West, really prize as a great human achievement. So interesting. Well, if we could dive in some aspects of the book, I would love that. Yeah. Can we talk about, so one of the essays, looks at evolution. Let me ask the big question, did the human brain evolve to think? That's essentially the question that you address in the essay. can you speak to it? Sure.

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