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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Makes Us Good and Evil?
"There's this whole space of unknown unknowns that we haven't even realized we haven't asked yet," he says. "We are very, you know, engineered to care about in groups versus outgroups." He describes an experiment where a hand is stabbed with a syringe and it triggers parts of the brain that trigger empathy for someone else who has been hurt. 'This is like seeing God getting stabbed by his own son or daughter'
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