May 7, 2020
The author of a book about how the physical brain creates consciousness was explaining how brain architecture strives to make the brain robust rather than efficient. The efficient brain can outperform the robust brain within certain parameters but cannot survive outside those narrow limits. Evolution favors systems that can survive. Many of the factors that make human brains robust are similar to the factors that make the free market economic system robust as well. In this week’s episode, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses how free market economies appear to be custom made for human beings.