Episode description
Do we have a right brain problem? Author and journalist Matthew Syed said so in a recent fascinating Sunday Times column.
Professor of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, Shane O'Mara, says no.
So why is our political discourse, pretty much everywhere, so polarised, context & nuance free, and just so nasty?
Why, when we know, with as much certainty as we can muster, that the world is a very uncertain place, is everyone so certain?
Shane is tempted to say that the world was ever thus and Chris & Jim should stay off Twitter.
Point taken, but the authoritarian, conspiracy loving nut jobs do seem to have the upper hand - or at least are making more noise.
In this podcast, AI is confused with AIB. That is a step too far.
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