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#168: Orwell 2.0 (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Importance of Metaphor in Chemistry

The difference between the chemistry and the biology is orders of magnitude in terms of what fraction we understand. Because of the difference in complexity, absolutely. And there's another issue which we hinted at at the beginning of the podcast. How are we to depict a neuron that has a thousand, several thousand, dendritic connections to other neurons? You could have just a sea of complexity and then the student doesn't understand the neuron. Or you could simplify it and then they get the wrong idea of the neuron and it gets overly ingrained. The capacity of something, especially something visually compelling to mislead the mind is so great.

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