Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Paul Bloom. He's a professor of

psychology at the University of Toronto, professor emeritus of psychology at Yale University,

and an author. The human mind is a mystery. If it wasn't for the fact that we experience it,

the universe would give us absolutely no indication that consciousness even existed. After an

entire career studying psychology, Professor Bloom has some answers to the psychology questions

we've all asked ourselves. Expect to learn whether you can actually remember everything that

you've ever experienced, whether we know why consciousness evolved at all, why we should remember

segment Freud, why babies are way smarter than you think, whether attachment theory is rubbish,

if psychology can tell us how to live a good life, and much more. Don't forget that if you are

listening you should have also got a copy of the Modern Wisdom reading list. It is one hundred of

the most interesting and impactful books that I've ever read fiction and nonfiction real-life

stories and there's links to go and buy them and descriptions about why I like them, and it's

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