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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Happened in Ancient Greece?
The history of ancient Greece is characterized by a transformation that involved breaking things down and understanding the natural world. This led to the development of rules around architecture, elegance, statues, and tragedy. Greek tragedy encompasses the embrace of both good and bad, capturing the full range of human emotions. It explores the idea that there are problems so vast that death seems like an easy way out, highlighting the concept that life supersedes physics and the brain supersedes life. It emphasizes the power of the human brain to diverge from the course of evolution.
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