152 - Status Quo Rationalization (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0	The You're Not So Smart Podcast, Live On Stage, In Front of Humans in New York City.
0:06.1	I would like you to be one of those humans, so please join me with several special
0:10.5	scientists to celebrate self-delusion on May 15th. Tickets are available now. We
0:16.1	need a link to find them. You will find that link on that you are not so smart, Twitter and
0:20.6	Facebook accounts and at you are not so smart.
0:23.0	dot com. You, me, brains, behavior, biases, and more in New York City on May 15th at the Bell House.
0:31.0	Get your tickets before you can't get tickets anymore. And the cool thing, hey, home down into the middle of the parties and check. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
1:05.0	Episode 152. You had this procedure to correct an epileptic problem, is that right?
1:27.0	I was trying to stop the seizures. I was having seizures like every day or so
1:32.3	or so or so
1:33.0	or sometimes two or three a day.
1:34.0	That's the voice of Alan Aldeds from a 1996 episode of Scientific American
1:38.6	Frontiers, and in the show he interviews a famous splitbrain
1:42.1	patient named Joe, who in the 1990s became
1:45.5	one of the most valuable subjects in psychological research. Joe's unique
1:49.9	because to help control his epileptic seizures he underwent a corpus
1:53.9	colostomy. Doctors severed almost all the nerve fibers that once
1:58.0	connected his right and left brain hemispheres, leaving him in many ways a man with two brains.
2:05.8	Do you feel any different when you think about something than you did any differently
2:09.6	from the way you felt before the procedure?
2:11.9	It's just kind of backup brain, that's all.
2:15.0	That's something everybody could use, right?
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