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cool, we're good, but bad. They went quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 83. Oh, So I want to ask you a couple of really quick hits and then we'll get into some more

more in-depth stuff and I think this is really fun to ask an actual scientist why this is.

Why do we get motion sickness?

Well, a couple of theories around with the most common theory which due to some accidental viral media

story people are attributed to me as if I discovered it which I did not.

This is neuroscientist Dean Burnett who's written a new book, Idiot Brain.

It does appear to be, this is, well, I call a glitch, but it's not even that really, it's a deliberate

thing, but it's not, it's not used appropriately. So when we are in motion by

under our own steam and our own power we are walking and traveling along by

our own emulation there's a very specific set of sensory feeds coming into the brain at the most fundamental

level like areas like the thonymous which were all the basic information the raw data is processed

in something usable.

As a neuroscientist, Dean knows that the brain is quite fallible.

It's the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, he writes in his book,

but it also has some very haphazard properties and there are some things it doesn't do so well.

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