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#338 - Robert Wright - Psychology, Aliens & Averting The Apocalypse

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Emotionality in Mindfulness

I don't know if less emotionality would be akin to more enlightenment. My proposal is that most civilizations couldn't be more emotional than us because they would struggle with global coordination. I mean, you can imagine scenarios where they consolidate planetary order without becoming less tribal like totalitarianism or some sort of technocracy overload. Yeah, tends to be an unstable thing.

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