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If two is company and three a crowd, what\u2019s the ideal number to write a play or invent a new operating system? Some say you need groups to be creative. Others disagree: breakthroughs come only in solitude.\nHear both sides, and find out why you always have company even when alone: meet the \u201cparliament of selves\u201d that drive your brain\u2019s decision-making.\nPlus, how ideas of societies lead them to thrive or fall, and why educated conservatives have lost trust in science.\nGuests:\n\n\nSusan Cain \u2013 Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u2019t Stop Talking\n\n\n\nKeith Sawyer \u2013 Psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration\n\n\n\nDavid Eagleman \u2013 Neuroscientist, Baylor College of Medicine and author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain\n\n\n\nGordon Gauchat \u2013 Sociologist, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill\n\n\nJoseph Tainter \u2013 Professor, Environment & Society Department, Utah State University and author of The Collapse of Complex Societies \n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nFirst released April 30, 2012.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices