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It was originally published in 2005 and was intended to explain how the human brain works and why it sometimes behaves irrationally, as if a chimp were in control. It was later revised and updated to include more evidence-based information in a book called 'The Path Through the Jungle'.
If people aren't familiar with the chimp model how do you introduce them to that?
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It was originally published in 2005 and was intended to explain how the human brain works and why it sometimes behaves irrationally, as if a chimp were in control. It was later revised and updated to include more evidence-based information in a book called 'The Path Through the Jungle'.
If people aren't familiar with the chimp model how do you introduce them to that?
I wrote the chimp paradox probably over about 4 years trying to refine it I didn't want to get it wrong so I put out when I thought as close I can get it to explain this is your brain and how it works
so I rewrote effectively and called it a path through the jungle so a path through the jungle is more it's got the evidence base, the research behind it I know in America the chimp paradox didn't take off and I was criticized because there was no evidence
it was assessed by Cambridge Neuroscience Department and they said spot on so there is a right upon Cambridge University's website for those who are academically interested to say that they were saying that yeah this is an amazing model and it's very detailed to link it to neuroscience
that's why I called it the chimp paradox