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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is It Hard for Intelligent Life to Survive Like It Did on Earth?
On the question of intelligence do you think is difficult for intelligent life to arise like it did on earth from everything you've written and studied about the brain how magical of a thing is it in terms of the odds it takes to arise? Yeah so you know magic is just don't get me wrong I mean I like a magic show as much as the next person my husband was a magician at one time but you knowmagic is just a bunch of stuff that we don't really understand how it works yet. There are some major steps in the course of evolution that at the beginning of life the step from single cell to multicellular organisms things like that which are really not known.
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