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Rationally Speaking #178 - Tim Urban on "Trying to live well, as semi-rational animals"

Rationally Speaking Podcast

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The Good, Bad Dichotomy Between the Rational and Irrational

Roxanne Jones: I made some observation on Facebook recently about how people in my circles sometimes talk about their brains. She says they frame them as like these are thoughts that occurred to me, but that I don't have to sort of live inside them. And so she asks if you endorse that good, bad dichotomy between the rational and irrational sides of yourself. "It was just so interesting that we, when we like separate ourselves from our brains, we're doing it in the completely opposite way"

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