I think there are very few people in the world who literally, like, don't trust science. There is kind of a scientific method and an incredibly abstracted sense of where you can think about it as you have all these theories,. To be very clear, that breaks down into immense complication, and incredibly quickly. So while there's an infinite number of theories, we're not talking about easy infinities either. We're talking about k the big cantorian infinities of kinds of theoris you can have. And then what are your standards of evidence? And then how do you, as a community, make decisions and so on. But other than respecting what you get back from
Erik Hoel is a neuroscientist and an author. Erik often writes about the intersection of humanities and science, and his debut novel "The Revelations" is a tale of science, murder, and consciousness. Our discussion with Erik includes topics like:
- Are humans really "conscious"?
- Different theories of consciousness
- Neural pruning in babies
- How emotions drives scientific progress
- Accepting the flaws in each of us
- And MUCH more!
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