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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Do You Think About the Idea of Ideas?
The size of the cerebral cortex gives us the capacity to do things like build civilizations and coordinate with each other. We draw a line in the sand and we make countries and then we create you know we create citizens and immigrants. But also ideas I mean the countries are centered around the concept of like ideas. Well what do you think a citizen is and an immigrant those are ideas. Those are ideas that we impose on reality and make them real and then they have very very serious and real effects physical effects on people.
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