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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:30.4 | I think that this question boils down to being able to discern when a danger is truly a danger |
| 0:36.9 | and when a danger is really a bias and when a danger is really a bias. |
| 0:39.9 | When a danger is a cultural bias, when a danger is down to, you know, views that we have that we should unpack and try to contextualize and try to be better about it. |
| 0:52.8 | Be better people. |
| 0:55.5 | And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 1:04.8 | There are some very basic puzzles about human nature and about the biological world |
| 1:10.7 | that seem to challenge in some ways |
| 1:13.0 | what you might expect on the basis of the theory of evolution. |
| 1:19.2 | Why is it, for example, that we are capable of great altruism, that some animals, |
| 1:26.1 | like bees, are even more altruistic sacrificing themselves |
| 1:30.1 | for the queen bee with no realistic prospect of ever reproducing when that should lead |
| 1:37.5 | to those kind of characteristics dying out since they are not fit they do not make it likely that we will pass on our genes to the next |
| 1:47.8 | generation. More broadly, why is it that we have so many animals, apparently up to two-thirds of |
| 1:56.3 | all animal species, that undergo some form of metamorphosis? If nature wanted to create a butterfly, why start |
| 2:03.1 | with a caterpillar? Well, my guest today is answering those questions in beautiful, really |
| 2:11.6 | interesting books. Orrin Harmon is a philosopher of science who has written very interesting books like |
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