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A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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- In your head, your Higher Mind and Primitive Mind compete for control of your psychology. On the group level, the two minds jostle for control over the group’s culture. When people are around other people, their Primitive and Higher Minds band together with others of their kind in a group-wide power struggle. And like a human’s personality, a group... See more
from Page Not Found — Wait But Why by Tim Urban
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- Our bodies and minds are built to live in a tribe in 50,000BC, which leaves modern humans with a number of unfortunate traits, one of which is a fixation with tribal-style social survival in a world where social survival is no longer a real concept. We’re all here in 2014, accompanied by a large, hungry, and easily freaked-out woolly mammoth who st... See more
from Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth) - Wait but Why by end meta
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- Over the years, the Higher Mind has come to see the Primitive Mind as a not-very-smart pet. But he also understands that it’s important to the whole system to let the Primitive Mind get what it needs from its little pet life—to an extent. The Primitive Mind is endlessly greedy, completely untrainable, and the Higher Mind has learned the hard way th... See more
from Page Not Found — Wait But Why by Tim Urban
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