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#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

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Love Is a Very Useful Tool

It seems like it makes sense for love to be a more powerful emergent phenomena of our collective intelligence versus hate and evil and destruction. But I think the caveat here is that humans are capable of great acts of kindness and great acts of generosity to people in their in-group. And we're also tribal. Yeah, I mean, that's the kitschy way to say it. We're tribes, we're tribal. So sometimes you're a brother. You know, you sometimesyou're a friend. The environment is also responsible in part for creating the evil in this world. Like Hitler's in different versions of even more subtle, more smaller scale versions of evil.

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