When Wisdom Fails: Consciousness as Humanity’s Adaptive Mode @RalstonCollegeSavannah
When Wisdom Fails: Consciousness as Humanity’s Adaptive Mode @RalstonCollegeSavannah
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
From our 2025 Sophia Lectures, evolutionary biologist, Dr Bret Weinstein explains how consciousness allows humans to deal with novel problems by allowing people to pool together different insights and so parallel process a solution.

Watch the full lecture here: https://www.ralston.ac/the-sophia-lectures/bret-weinstein-heather-heying-sophia-lectures-2025
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