If we are ever to get to a science of full fully understanding human behaviour, it's going to take computational power and complexity that i i know i can't represent in my mind. There'll never be ia's just giving a lecture for an interestyte class. And they were asking me what i thought the errors of psychology have been like. What what some of the biggest misteps psychology have taken? I think the real question is whether this is even the best way of trying to understand human nature. It might that we can't get there with the methods that are available to us. Now, maybe our a i overlords will get there. Maybe, if we are lab experiments
David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz Kafka's masterful novella "The Metamorphosis." What kind of a story is this? A Marxist or religious allegory? A work of weird fiction? A family drama? A dark comedy? Why does a story about a man who turns into a giant insect get under our skins so much?
Plus a study that links insomnia to our fear of death. What a cheerful summer episode! (Actually we're fairly proud of this one... As always we suggest reading the text before you listen or soon after).
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