Andrew Huberman· PhD
the story of the guy sitting in the cafe writing in his journal uh who lost his spouse of 75 years you have to know a lot to be able to appreciate how he must be feeling how does it make you feel let me pull up a lot of relevant knowledge personal experiences and memories and then hypothesize generate some kind of narrative some kind of storyline that would accommodate his situation and allow me to infer those kinds of stories which are very different from here's somebody stepping off the curb wow look at that ankle right it's very obvious how you should how that makes the person feel and how you should feel about that you don't really need to bring a whole lot of cultural knowledge about their you know personal history with their spouse to be able to understand that's breaking your ankle hurts right and what we found is that it was those kinds of stories where people had to bring a lot of contextual knowledge to fully appreciate that activated these default mode systems