How does your brain decide that some other person has their own inner life?

And how does this sometimes go in a different direction where you end up viewing another

person more like an object?

This is what neuroscientists mean when they talk about dehumanization. It means that

your brain is not cranking up its social machinery to understand that the other person has a mind

like you do. We're going to dive deep into this today with social neuroscientist Lassana Harris.

We'll ask, is dehumanization a cause of violence, or is it the

fuel that keeps it burning?

Do people who think of themselves as highly empathic sometimes dehumanize more than other people?

And on the flip side, why do we sometimes think that chatbots or robots

are people with interior minds? Will children raised with AI grow up to fight for AI rights?

Today we're going to dive deep into how your brain sees others. So get ready for a great brain stretch.

Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford,

and in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe

to understand how we see the world.

And importantly, today, how we see each other.

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