196 - Art (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Moira Dillon studies how “the physical world in which we live shapes the abstract world in which we think,” and in this episode we travel to her Lab for the Developing Mind at NYU to sit down and ask her a zillion questions about how the brain creates the reality we interact with, and how we attempt to communicate that reality to others through language, art, geometry, and mathematics.Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. Episode 196. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, and the me. Hey there. I'm working on a very big podcast right now and it's Christmas time and so
0:49.6	this is a rebroadcast of an episode from exactly one year ago.
0:53.9	One of my favorite interviews,
0:55.2	or one of my favorite scientists, The Fantastic,
0:58.7	and here's where it jumps to the audio
1:01.0	from the previous episode.
1:02.6	The fantastic Moira Dylan, a cognitive scientist
1:07.0	who studies cognitive, well just cognitive everything,
1:10.1	but who is currently working on spatial reasoning and abstract thought.
1:14.5	This conversation goes everywhere. I'm sure you're going to enjoy it because we cover everything
1:19.9	from why and how brains create art, spatial domains,
1:24.7	abstract thought, what the mind is,
1:27.8	subjective reality, objective reality,
1:29.6	her crazy round room where they do experiments,
1:33.2	psychologistism, Elizabeth Spelke,
1:36.2	linear perspective, nature versus nurture,
1:39.3	is math real, what is innate, what is not, cave paintings, how to communicate, how the brain renders
1:46.1	3D to 2D, back to 3D, back to 2D, back to 2D, back to 3D, back to 3D,
1:49.8	language, book strapping of language by art, art bookstrapping language, inferential
1:55.3	models, and more.
1:56.8	Also a note, as I sometimes have to say, when you go out and get audio like this, it's
2:01.1	not going to be the greatest audio, it's a little weird. It's not bad. It's just different. But the audio does sound like I'm
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