Is your brain a one-person show or an ensemble cast of rivaling neural networks? How do we manage the conflict between different drives, and what does this have to do with literature, deities, maturation, and what Nietzsche meant when he said “every drive wants to be master, and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit”? Join Eagleman this week with Jordan Peterson as we examine the way lives are built on conflicting wants.

Ep138 "Why do our political brains mistake opinion for truth?" with Kaizen Asiedu
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Ep137 "Do cures ever create the next crisis?" with Thomas Goetz
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Ep136 "Why do we care about mattering?" with Rebecca Goldstein
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