AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
The Evolution of Creativity and Children
I think people can get into some very dark territory when they start thinking that they can turn everything into a science that isn't science. I think of taking children seriously as like the final phase of the enlightenment or maybe not the final phase, but it is certainly one area that we haven't applied enlightenment thinking to. With regard to how this could have evolved, you might want to read David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity. And then speaking of the treatment of women, that one question to ask is, how could it be that every society that has ever existed has been wrong on this basic moral question?