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Erik Vance — The Drugs Inside Your Head

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Does It Mean to Be Human?

i just want how youd start thinking it through, in front of all of us, the question of of what it means to be human. There is no getting away from it, like this idea that somehow you're too clever for belief to completely change your reality. It gets back to that idea about the making predictions, just what our brain does. And those predictions, they create this tapestry of reality and expectations. In the way we see everything fitting together is just as full, odd and amazing as the person next to you. That's just who we are. Thank you.

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