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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Effects of Technology on the Brain

In the 60s, there seemed to be much more of a sense of possibility and futuristic sort of a futuristic vision than there is today. Amitai Chakrabarti: I think we've restructured our brains because the screen is so powerful that somebody could be scrolling on their phone while driving. He says phones are some sort of God tablet that allows us to implant memories from other people that never happened to us. The issue of boredom and the issue of creativity under constraint.

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