Ep148 "How can we improve political dialog?" with Saul Perlmutter

About this episode

David Eagleman discusses improving political dialogue with guest Saul Perlmutter, exploring the connection between belief systems and evidence.

How can we improve political dialogue, and what does this have to do with the discovery that the universe behaves differently than expected? Why do we cling to beliefs even when evidence pushes against them? What if the biggest problem facing humanity could be solved with practice? Join Eagleman today with Saul Perlmutter, a Nobel-prize winning astrophysicist, but instead of the cosmos we talk about the inner cosmos: why polarization happens and how we might address it with a different kind of thinking.

People in this episode

Host: David Eagleman

Guest: Saul Perlmutter

Topics covered

• political dialogue
• polarization
• beliefs
• humanity
• thinking
• astrophysics

Keywords

• political dialogue
• polarization
• beliefs
• evidence
• thinking
• Saul Perlmutter
• David Eagleman

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Books & works: Ep148

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