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Podcast: Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Episode: Bret Weinstein, Ph.D.: Understanding, Leveraging & Refining Ancient Tools to Solve Modern Problems
Description: Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, Ph.D. joins host Pete Kelly, Ph.D., C.Psych for a wide-ranging discussion around how the understanding of ourselves from an evolutionary lens might help us to build the awareness needed at both the level of the individual as well as the collective, to identify, manage (and even solve) our most emergent and pressing challenges. In this discussion they explore in depth:some of our more challenging characteristics as a species and the selection pressures that led to the evolution of these traits.Drs. Weinstein & Heyings' model of the interplay between consciousness & culture.t...