
Stories & Status, Will Storr
Rebel Wisdom
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The Human Brain Is Not Oriented to Find Truth
Ono: Do we want to make sense of the world, or do we want to find narratives that make us feel better? I think we're sort of, in some ways, we've got orientations towards both, and they sort of incompete. But how would you conen avery nihalistic place if you say, well, actually, the human brain is not kind of oriented to find truth. It's actually oriented towards stata or towards dominance. What defines modernity for meit was this thing that happened am er in beginning in western europe, where am groups began to form that specifically attached statusto the discovery of truth. And so to me,
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