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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
Lex Fridman Podcast
Evolution and Your Attention Are Constantly Evolving
What we're talking about is how you are doing something very analogous to evolution. What's constantly happening is there are processes within you that are opening up variation and also processes that are putting selection on it. I can give you two clear examples of that: your autonomic nervous system, parasympathetic and sympathetic. The sympathetic system is biased to trying to interpret as much of reality as threat or opportunity. There's this dynamic coupling of opponent processing between them that is constantly evolving your arousal. Similarly, your attention, you have the default mode network, task network. The default mode network is putting pressure on you right now to mind wander,. Then the task focus network is selecting out of those
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