Angus Fletcher: Evolving Past The “Selfie”, Myths About Artificial Intelligence, and Choosing Our Narrative | EP 398

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever wonder how the stories you tell yourself are impacting your reality? In this episode of the Align podcast, Angus Fletcher and I chat about how the human brain is predisposed to create and tell itself narratives that fit with its hopes and fears and how these stories we tell ourselves influence our perception of life. We also chat about why a human brain will always outperform artificial intelligence, the origins of technology, and what will happen if we fail to go beyond the “selfie” in today’s society. Dr. Angus Fletcher (PhD, Yale) researches the science of human intelligence--the science of why humans are smarter than machines. His research has been published in The New York Academy of Sciences, Harvard Business Review, and dozens of other academic journals. His most recent books are Wonderworks and Storythinking. What we discuss: 02:27: What is the power of story? 05:36: What is the effect of culture on an individual who sees the world through the lens of science? 16:00: Where is Artificial Intelligence heading and why do we worship it so much? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement. Today's conversation is with someone that I greatly value and appreciate on the planet.
0:14.6	His name is Dr. Angus Fletcher.
0:18.4	Angus Fletcher is a professor of Story Science at Ohio State's Project Narrative, the world's leading academic think tank
0:25.0	for the study of stories. He has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature, received his
0:30.0	PhD from Yale, taught Shakespeare at Stanford, and has published two books and dozens
0:35.7	of peer-reviewed academic articles on scientific workings of novels, poetry, film, and theater.
0:41.7	His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation,
0:44.7	Melon Foundation, and a lot of other important stuff.
0:47.8	I'm not gonna read his whole entire bio.
0:49.6	He's been feature all over the place.
0:51.2	Disney, Sony, BBC, Amazon, he's legit and his mind is a
0:57.4	gift to this planet and I think you guys are going to really enjoy this conversation
1:02.0	the way that stories are influential in not just
1:07.2	entertainment but also the stories that we tell ourselves about our lives, about who we are,
1:11.2	about our families, and our purpose and place in the world,
1:14.7	and how that spells out into our Constitution.
1:18.9	Our physiological makeup, our structural makeup, it's freaking interesting.
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1:36.3	review if you think this program deserves it.
1:39.3	I'm going to read a review from, let's just pull one up here, this is from Miss Franz.
1:45.1	Miss Franz says, informative and enjoyable podcast.
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