Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Smart People Podcast
The Interplay Between Evolution and Culture
Our appetites have been wired up through natural selection. That's why we have sexual desires that are very sort of circumscribed and kind of predictable. But then we also live in cultures, and the cultures manifest these things in very different ways. In siinc is more complicated. Like we all want status, but what status is in a hunter gatherer society versus an academic university department versus a baseball team is very different. You see these variations. And for what i'm interested in suffering and the use of suffering for pleasure to find meaning.
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