140 | Dean Buonomano on Time, Reality, and the Brain
“Time” and “the brain” are two of those things that are somewhat mysterious, but it would be hard for us […]
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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determined by a number
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127 | Erich Jarvis on Language, Birds, and People
Many characteristics go into making human beings special — brain size, opposable thumbs, etc. Surely one of the most important
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122 | David Eagleman on Tapping Into the Livewired Brain
Imagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens
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104 | David Rosen and Scott Miles on the Neuroscience of Music and Creativity
Creativity is one of those things that we all admire but struggle to define or make concrete. Music provides a
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87 | Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
If you tell me that one of the world’s leading neuroscientists has developed a theory of how the brain works
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Episode 54: Indre Viskontas on Music and the Brain
It doesn’t mean much to say music affects your brain — everything that happens to you affects your brain. But
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Episode 50: Patricia Churchland on Conscience, Morality, and the Brain
It’s fun to spend time thinking about how other people should behave, but fortunately we also have an inner voice
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Episode 15: David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain
Language comes naturally to us, but is also deeply mysterious. On the one hand, it manifests as a collection of
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