Are You Out of Your Mind?

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How do we know what we know? The brain is an amazing product of evolutionary engineering, but many influences can play with our perceptions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:15.9	Welcome back to StarTalk, I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.2	This week we're talking about the brain.
0:23.6	And I had to bring in Chuck Nice for that, Chuck.
0:26.4	Welcome back to StarTalk.
0:27.4	Hey Neil, it's happening.
0:28.4	Can't get enough of you, man.
0:29.4	I don't blame you, man.
0:31.6	We brought you in for the Super Bowl show and for the brain show.
0:35.2	What's mostly two of my favorite things in the world.
0:38.3	I find the brain to be one of the most fascinating studies that anyone can undertake.
0:43.2	That in football, the brain gets bashed in football.
0:45.7	So there you go.
0:46.7	Totally hooked up for that.
0:48.4	So it's about the brain, because the brain is everything, right?
0:52.9	I think so.
0:53.9	And we try to define what separates us from other animals.
0:57.6	Right.
0:58.6	And it's language, it's abstract reasoning.
1:02.5	We do art and philosophy and music and science and science.
1:08.5	And so we try to sort of say that we are apart from the animals, because our brain can accomplish
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