The tech gap between China and the West is closing fast. But why did the land of paper and gunpowder ever fall behind? Fudan professor Debin Ma sketches the world-historical backdrop to China’s rise.
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This is part of the Great Divergence -interview series with Kenneth Pomeranz, Joel Mokyr, Robert Allen, Debin Ma, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Stephen Broadberry. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/news/podcasts/
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Neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues that David Hume was right: personal identity is an illusion created by the brain. Psychological and psychiatric data suggest that all minds dissociate from themselves creating various ‘selves’.
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This interview is part of the Great Divergence -interview series, produced by Warwick University's CAGE Research Centre. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/news/podcasts/
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