Squid and Jess! Two compelling stories!

So let's just talk about Jess.

What do you think is behind people's propensity to believe in conspiracy theories? Because they're a very interesting bunch, right? They cause a lot of damage too.

What do you reckon?

I reckon, like...

I'm just trying to think about my own propensity towards you know going down rabbit holes and that sort of thing and I think ultimately we're a species that tries to seek as much knowledge as we possibly can you know what I mean and sometimes there aren't always answers for things

yeah

I think by design we're engineered to look for reason where there is none, look for patterns where there aren't any.

Yes.

And put all that together into something that makes sense to our brains.

And I think that's sort of like.

Why do you think we

need things? Because I think that's exactly right, that we are, you know, we are pattern-seeking machines.

I

think it's evolutionary, honestly.

Yeah,

why? Unpack that evolutionary bias for me.

Either of you.

I think, like, we've got to have some sort of driving force behind our species, you know, and I think if we're not learning, we're sitting stagnant.

So it's in our biological make-up to go after these things, you know what I mean? And, yeah, I don't know.

It's a very strange...

The content homo erectus got eaten, so you've just got to stay busy and look for ways not to get eaten.

So

the happy relaxed homo erectus just

got eaten by the

lion.