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#338 - Robert Wright - Psychology, Aliens & Averting The Apocalypse

Modern Wisdom

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The Evolution of Mindfulness and the End of the World

Bob Wright: How do you go from working on evolutionary psychology to mindfulness and the end of the world? He says we're engineered by natural selection to feel it under certain circumstances. But that doesn't mean that it's always good for us, he adds. "My latest obsession is this thing I call the Apocalypse of Version Project"

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