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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?
Modern Wisdom
The Evolution of the Game of Pinball
The evolution of pinball is the most, most reflects the metaphorical mapping onto the evolution of the human brain. The game started as literally you just put a ball at the top of the incline and then you just hope and bet on where it ends up. Then people started to move it around to kind of like force the fate that they most wanted. It had to evolve the tilt mechanism to prevent that from happening. And then flippers came along and those flippers meant that you could control your fate instead of just be like washed around by the current.
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