The Selfish Gene: My Interview With Richard Dawkins
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Tai Lopez
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🗓️ 31 August 2015
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Because we all know selfish and greedy people, who seem to have it all.
We have all been betrayed by someone who went on to live a seemingly perfect life.
So there has to be something more to this - a more elegant explanation of the conflicts of life. A root explation of our selfishness... Of our altruism... About our DNA and "Nature vs. Nurture..."
In today’s Book-Of-The-Day, “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins, we examine this question of whether we are born greedy and 'evil' or if we only learn it from our environment.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, hello everybody. Welcome to today's book of the day show. I have an extremely special guest |
| 0:08.4 | Professor Richard Dawkins and we are talking on the selfish gene which among many of his books |
| 0:19.4 | is a bestselling book sold several million copies and is one of my favorite books. I've |
| 0:26.1 | ranked it on my book of the day top 150 recommended in my top five and so thank you for being on |
| 0:35.8 | the call from are you and where are you today in Oxford? Awesome, well this is very special and |
| 0:45.0 | I like to just jump right in to kind of the juiciest part, eat the dessert first if you will |
| 0:53.4 | Professor Dawkins. So I might bounce around a little bit but what I wanted to start with is this |
| 1:01.5 | concept that you talk about in the book of why humans have brains like we do and one of them you |
| 1:11.9 | say is so we can simulate the future without actually having to go through all the trial and |
| 1:21.2 | error ourselves because you say you know trial and error takes time and is deadly. Do you think if |
| 1:29.7 | you could talk a little bit about that because that's kind of the central thesis of this book of |
| 1:34.4 | the day you know how can we use our brains warm buffets says we only learn through mistakes but |
| 1:40.6 | they don't have to be ours. Well that's yes I mean brains of course go back a long way |
| 1:46.4 | in evolution and not all brains do that human brains are perhaps a bit unusual in the ability to |
| 1:53.4 | simulate the future to do precarious errors instead of real error that lead to death. So when |
| 2:02.4 | brains first started I suppose you could say animals were programmed to do whatever was on |
| 2:09.4 | average best for their survival and then a bit later they progressed on to learning where they |
| 2:17.3 | could actually change as a consequence of experience of the past within their own lifetime and then |
| 2:25.8 | the next stage which is the one you're talking about is when they didn't even have to experience |
| 2:31.3 | things you could experience things precariously in your imagination run a simulation in what is |
| 2:39.7 | calculation what if I did this what if I did that set up a scenario and then avoid actually |
| 2:48.5 | in danger in yourself by running the simulation the carries in your head that's something that |
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