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12 Dec 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
“Because I think you have an idea, and the idea then drives the brain, and the brain has another idea.”
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- Irving Finkel
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- 12 Dec 2025
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Names …names the things, and then you have the idea that a label fixes to something. Then the light bulb has gone on, and next minute you have rhino and you have skin and you have babies. Because I think you have an idea, and the idea then drives the brain, and the brain has another idea. It works like fertility. So what do you think is the motivation, the primary driver of developing written language? Does it go hand-in-hand with civilization?…
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