i think that the distopian element of this, which is played up in lots of different ways, right? Just the office space end, like the hallways and the endless desks. And then also this idea of what's like we want to create slaves,. Like we're trying to create slaves, and this is our way of doing it. In fact, we're going to create slaves that are us. The scaries thing is, they're done work, they go down in the elevator, they come back up, and they don't think any time has passed.Like having anaesthesia. It's like whatever has happened, they might feel it physically... But so all they do is
We welcome Paul Bloom to talk about the first season of "Severance," the new mind-bending and mind-splitting TV series on Apple TV+. What happens when you separate your home life from your work life? Do you create a completely different person? Is it a form of self-slavery? How important is autobiographical memory to your identity? And what’s the deal with the break room… and the goats?
Plus, what happens when you combine the obsessions of evolutionary psychology with the methodological problems of social psychology? You (finally) get an explanation for the female orgasm.
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