Episode 107: First Principles Thinking
Exponential Wisdom
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The Importance of Opposite Thumbs
I think that genius in anything is a higher level of intelligence than can be explained. The great striving for humanity, if I can make a distinction as opposed to non-human life form is two things. One is a brain that loves novelty and then has to create structures,. social structures where it's okay to be creative and novel because in old days you could get executed really quickly for being novel. But the other thing is our thumbs, opposable thumbs. There's a direct connection between the opposable thumb of your dominant hand and your brain.
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