There's plenty of heated debate about free speech nowadays, and as far as I can tell,

almost everyone claims to be in favor of free speech, but they often mean speech from their side,

and not whatever those dangerous grifters are on the other side, whatever they want to say.

Now, from the point of view of the brain, why do I think that free speech is worth defending?

And what does this have to do with internal models or internet indecency or printing presses or college campuses or john stewart mill or cultures of

honor or robinson crusoe or cancel culture why literature matters and why free speech makes everyone

safer welcome to intercosmos with me david eagleman i'm a neuroscience safer.

Welcome to Intercosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford.

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