Are You Trying to Appeal to the Lower Reward Circuit?

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Everybody can have a reward circuit that is based on, you know, chocolate cake and sloth. The base line of their happiness goes down overtime even though every time theu et the chocolate cake, they get a spike. So if there are reward circuits that decrease the quality of their life, reward circuits that increase,. could we appeal to one rather than the other? Ya, totally we could. Could we have an education system as a result, it was identifying in aptitudes, innate interests of every one and facilitating their development?"

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.