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331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is Your Brain a Cost-Benefit Mechanism?

I think of the brain as a cost-benefit mechanism, right? We're always doing this trade-offs. I'm really an economics apostate. I think there are no power laws for human behavior. Let's just see what humans do and rather than ask them or infer their motivations from their behavior,. Just actually go and go to the horse's mouth, just measure directly.

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