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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Are You a Rationalist? If You Really Believe That You Have a Right to Anything More Than Anyone Else
If more people were aware of how much of our everyday behavior was not completely rational rule based cognitive and how much of it was automatic visceral driven by heuristics that we've inherited from thousands of years ago it would cast our decisions in a slightly different light. If you really believe this stuff you have no rational grounds for ever hating anyone because they didn't have a damn thing to do with whatever it is they did, Robert Sapolsky says. "I can think those ways for about three and a half seconds at a time before I fall back into the much more encouraging stuff" said Sean O'Brien on Mindscape podcast.
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