Brains
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Alan Davies and neuroscientists Prof Uta Frith and Prof Sophie Scott. They discover the secret to why humans are such social creatures and why two brains are definitely better than one. Our brains are wired to learn from and mimic other brains we come into contact with, even though most of the time we don't even realise that is what they/we are doing. The subtle cues we get from other people and the information in their brains, affects our own wiring and experience of the world. With this incredible complexity, might we ever be able to create an artificial brain that mimics our own and the human experience?
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. I'm Robyn Inz, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, last week, we ended the show with a trailer for this week's show, |
| 0:12.6 | which was going to be about flatter than conspiracy theories. |
| 0:16.3 | But since then, and this is true, our lead panelist called, |
| 0:21.4 | and he got an illness and had to cancel. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, isn't that weird? |
| 0:25.7 | Made to be doing a show about conspiracy theories. |
| 0:28.2 | The main guest suddenly gets ill. |
| 0:30.8 | Suddenly says he has food poisoning. |
| 0:33.4 | I hear an illuminati owl out there somewhere. |
| 0:37.3 | So basically, as we've discovered, yet again, |
| 0:39.4 | the illuminati have used a complex system of slightly off-volivons |
| 0:43.8 | to make sure that they will silence the true skeptics |
| 0:48.0 | and reinforce the narrative of the mainstream media. |
| 0:51.8 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:53.1 | You mean he didn't check the sell-by date on some pastry? |
| 0:55.8 | Oh, that is very much what the scientists and the experts would say, I would imagine. |
| 1:02.5 | Anyway, we've postponed that show till the autumn. |
| 1:05.1 | Can I just say, actually, though, that because you used the term autumn, |
| 1:08.2 | as someone who was very interested in flat-earth, I am also an autumn denier. |
| 1:11.7 | LAUGHTER |
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