A Ridiculous History of Brain Science, with Jorge Cham

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today, we all generally understand that the brain is responsible for what we call personality and thought -- yet this wasn't always the case. Once humans figured out the brain was more than a weird lump in the skull, it took centuries of trial and error, along with quack science, to really understand how it works. In today's episode, the guys welcome back special guest Jorge Cham, the creator of ScienceStuff, to lear more about the ridiculous history of brain science.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.0	Thank you, as always, so much ridiculous historians for joining us.
0:32.6	Let's hear it for The Man the Myth, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:38.2	Hi, Max. All Williams. Hi, Max.
0:39.3	All right.
0:40.4	Yeah, we're getting some snapping fingers.
0:42.7	This is part two of a continuing exploration.
0:46.4	The guy who just said, Hi, Max, is Mr. Noel Brown, none other than.
0:51.2	Oh, thanks, buddy.
0:52.5	You're welcome, Buckaroo.
0:54.0	They called me Ben Bullen in this part of the world.
0:57.3	And, Noel, if we could do a previously on ridiculous history.
1:04.9	The smoke monster was bullshit.
1:08.5	Wasn't anything.
1:10.1	Well, it was a thing.
1:11.2	It was the man in black.
1:12.5	It was, you know, that's the show lost.
1:15.6	Dated references, y'all.
1:17.6	But that's what we're here for.
1:19.2	No, it's true.
1:19.8	We did previously on Ridiculous History talk with the brilliant and lovely Dr.
1:25.7	Jorge Chan, who helped us navigate the universe a little bit, from the Big Bang to the singularities to AI and the way that artificial intelligence may well be close to, if not already, at a place where it resembles the human brain.
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