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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
We're Like Every Other Animal Out There
The ability of human beings to conceptualize the future especially sort of counterfactual hypothetical future scenarios seems to be if not unique to humans at least much better developed in human beings than elsewhere. We have automatic implicit you know lightning fast classifications of people as to whether they are in us or them and we have automatic lightning fast conclusions that we like the us is a whole lot more than the them's but where are we different? And it's incredibly easy to manipulate us as to which dichotomy seems most important to us at any given point.
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