Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think ACT III How Humans Learned to See the Future

Byron Reese ACT III of Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think

There are reasons we are the way we are; we are optimized for other purposes, not the least of which is thinking in stories not logic. So we did something else instead: we taught rocks how to think. Intrigued? So was I and I’m delighted to host the man who’ll answer this strange question in Act III of “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It” Byron Reese, welcome back to the show

Find Byron here: www.byronreese.com

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Framers with Kenneth Cukier: Make Better Decisions In The Age of Big Data

Framing is a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future.
Today’s book shows us how.

We welcome the author of Framers: Make Better Decisions In The Age of Big Data Kenneth Cukier

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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think Act II with Byron Reese

Today we focus on ACT II of Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future and Shape It with Byron Reese

Act II: In 17th century France, the mathematical framework known as ‘probability theory’ is born—a science for seeing into the future that we used to build the modern world

We welcome back the author of “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It” friend of the show, Byron Reese.

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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think Act I with Byron Reese

In today’s episode, our guest argues that we humans owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in.   
We welcome back the author of “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It” friend of the show, Byron Reese.

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