479: Lisa Feldman Barrett | Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Feldman Barrett (@lfeldmanbarrett) is among the top one percent most-cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. Her new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, is out now.
What We Discuss with Lisa Feldman Barrett:- Our brains evolved to keep our bodies alive -- thinking is just a bonus by-product.
- Why the lizard brain theory is a myth.
- More like companies than computers, our brains reorganize themselves when the situation calls for adaptation to survive.
- How our brains predict what we think we’re hearing and seeing, and how this affects our behavior.
- Why you're not really left-brained or right-brained.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show. |
| 0:02.4 | When your brain is predicting what it's doing is it's remembering. |
| 0:07.1 | Your brain is not asking itself what is that loud bang? |
| 0:10.3 | What is that tightness in the chest? |
| 0:13.1 | It's asking itself, figuratively speaking. |
| 0:15.9 | The last time I was in this situation and my body was in this day, |
| 0:21.0 | what caused that bang? |
| 0:22.3 | What caused that tightness in my chest? |
| 0:24.7 | So it's asking itself a similarity question. |
| 0:28.0 | What in my past was similar to the present? |
| 0:31.0 | And what caused those things in the past? |
| 0:34.0 | And what's the likelihood that that's causing those things again? |
| 0:37.2 | And then your brain prepares you to act. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Jordan Harbanger. |
| 0:46.6 | On the Jordan Harbanger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, |
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