Show Notes
Bestselling author and flow researcher Steven Kotler on why empathy is a peak human capacity, what neurobiology reveals about caring, and how AI is changing what we care about.
Steven Kotler has spent more than thirty years mapping the outer edges of human performance. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, the founder of the Flow Research Collective joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about why flow opens the same circuits that allow empathy, what his work on intuition reveals about caring, how neurobiology quietly determines whether a person can care on any given day, and how AI is reshaping the architecture of human attention. The conversation closes on the long human story of cooperation, and the case for caring as the quiet engine of every form of peak human capacity.
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